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as in relaxing
tending to calm the emotions and relieve stress
some therapists believe that certain scents can have a narcotic effect on people
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as in hypnotic
tending to cause sleep
the lecturer droned on in a narcotic monotone that eventually had the entire class struggling to stay awake
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as in opiate
something that soothes, calms, or induces passivity or a sense of security
an irradicable sense of self-righteousness seems to be the narcotic that inures these religious fanatics from any realization of the harm they have done
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Recent Examples of narcotic
Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
Fleming was also being charged on suspicion of dangerous drug possession or use, false report to law enforcement, drug paraphernalia possession or use, and narcotic drug possession or use, according to jail records.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Nov. 2024
Abreu, who worked out of the 113th Precinct in Queens, was arrested in November 2020 and pleaded guilty to a narcotics conspiracy charge last year.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
Legend has it that Apollo prevented his muse priestess from brewing, imbibing or smoking laurel leaves, which have a mild narcotic property.
—Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
Fleming was also being charged on suspicion of dangerous drug possession or use, false report to law enforcement, drug paraphernalia possession or use, and narcotic drug possession or use, according to jail records.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
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As a result of an investigation and Terry frisk for weapons, officers took Jimenez into custody for narcotics violations.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Nov. 2024
Abreu, who worked out of the 113th Precinct in Queens, was arrested in November 2020 and pleaded guilty to a narcotics conspiracy charge last year.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Except as a form of hypnotic relaxation, even watching seems beside the point.Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Born January 12, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey, George Kresge was inspired to become a mentalist by Lee Falk’s crime solving comic strip Mandrake the Magician, whose work was based on an unusually fast hypnotic technique.Marc Berman, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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Natural forms of opiates and dopamine – key players in brain pathways that diminish pain and enhance reward – seem to be telltale ingredients of the elevated tails in our anticipation training program.Kelly Lambert, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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Additionally, in areas where the country set up harm-reduction programs, improvements were observed in addicts’ life expectancies and psychological well-being, coupled with an overall reduction in the illicit consumption of opiates.Amir A. Afkhami, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2013
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In the park, the medical outreach team handed out glass pipes and test kits that can detect fentanyl or veterinary tranquilizer in drugs before they’re consumed, possibly saving lives.Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
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An Ohio woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week for injecting her estranged husband with an animal tranquilizer — and then burying his body — during an attack that was partially captured on a vehicle dash camera.Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
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What to expect during treatment: Dorantes applies a topical anesthetic for around 30 minutes, and the treatment itself takes 20 to 30 minutes.Amber Gibson, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2024
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Instead, its high volume of ketamine, a potent anesthetic already skyrocketing as a prescription medication as well as surging in misuse, is responsible for its dissociative and psychedelic effects.Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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And yet the show has a soothing effect, predicated on the idea that human behavior (and misery) isn’t mysterious or unchangeable.Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2024
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Sunset Sherbet provides a soothing and calming effect, while the White Widow Hybrid THC-A Live Resin Liquid Budder Vape Pen offers a balanced mix of indica and sativa effects.Amplified Content Studio, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
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In any case, chamomile flowers—which look like adorable, tiny daisies—contain flavonoids, terpenoids, and coumarins which certainly have mildly sedative, anti-inflammatory, and antispasmodic properties.Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
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The population is impatient and the sedative effect of the impeachment process will soon wear off, which could mean new protests and instability if there are no significant changes in the short term.Moisés Costa, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2016
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“Narcotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/narcotic. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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