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as in security blanket
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as in negotiator
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Recent Examples of pacifier
These are perfect for sanitizing most breast pump parts and accessories, including bottles, nipples, pacifiers, cups, breast shields and more.
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Nora Colomer, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
Teething Toy $10 This food-grade silicone penguin comes in 18 different colors and can be used as a teether or pacifier.
—Maya Polton, Parents, 18 July 2024
Polly's jaw drops in shock, and her pacifier falls out of her mouth in a moment of pure festive joy.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
Lincoln and Mariah, the first babies born at Ascension Saint Thomas hospitals on Jan. 1, 2024, were presented custom gift baskets with onesies, pacifiers, burp cloths and more by the Tennessee Titans on their special day.
—Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 12 Jan. 2024
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Nora Colomer, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
Teething Toy $10 This food-grade silicone penguin comes in 18 different colors and can be used as a teether or pacifier.
—Maya Polton, Parents, 18 July 2024
Polly's jaw drops in shock, and her pacifier falls out of her mouth in a moment of pure festive joy.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
Lincoln and Mariah, the first babies born at Ascension Saint Thomas hospitals on Jan. 1, 2024, were presented custom gift baskets with onesies, pacifiers, burp cloths and more by the Tennessee Titans on their special day.
—Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 12 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pacifier
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Now, though, President Trump’s decisions to drop support for Ukraine, pull back America’s traditional security blanket in Europe and pressure allies to spend more on defense have forced the continent to rapidly rethink its security architecture.—
Aurelien Breeden,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2025
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That extra layer of help defense gave Horford a security blanket.—
Jay King,
The Athletic,
3 Mar. 2025
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After the arrest, a search of the apartment uncovered about 22,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills, 10,000 methamphetamine pills and over 13 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as four pounds of xylazine, a veterinary sedative found in about 30 percent of overdose deaths in the city.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2025
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Super Bowl reporter found dead had sedative in his system, police say Wife of powerful cartel boss wanted by U.S. is released from prison In: New Mexico Death Gene Hackman Alex Sundby Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2025
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Parker Posey is especially good as a homemaker, Violet Ratliff, who arrives with a cache of tranquilizers—these are soon being pilfered and swallowed by her husband, Timothy (Jason Isaacs), a businessman about to be exposed for fraud.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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He's been shot twice by bullets and other times by tranquilizer darts.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Axios,
11 Feb. 2025
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However, the cloud provider deployment costs can serve as a good proxy to indicate relatively how much investment will be required to scale on-prem implementations.—
Francis Sideco,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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The younger Assad avoided direct confrontation with Israel but provided its archenemy, Iran, with key supply routes to Tehran’s armed proxy groups, most notably Hezbollah in Lebanon, which fired thousands of rockets at Israel during the Israel-Hamas war.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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Both are palliatives but not cures to the challenge of creating a unified legal function capable of serving the needs of digital/AI-era business.—
Mark A. Cohen,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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One of the advantages of early detection is that the goal of treatment becomes a cure as opposed to palliative.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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If the owner decides to fire the attorney for having met their ethical obligation to raise such concerns, the attorney is equally bound to keep the reasons for their termination confidential (except in certain exceptional circumstances).—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Immigration agents detained Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow who teaches at Georgetown and has a visa, outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, his attorney has said.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC News,
21 Mar. 2025
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This seemed to be a factor in ExxonMobil making a U-turn in their attitude toward climate change.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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However, the party emphasizes that achieving independence requires careful consideration of economic and social factors, including the development of a self-sustaining economy and the improvement of essential services such as health care and education.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Pacifier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacifier. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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