relaxant

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Recent Examples of relaxant Ashwagandha comes with natural relaxant properties to calm down your mind and recharge your brain. Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023 Perhaps most interesting is its airway relaxant potential in the treatment of asthma [2]. Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2014 See All Example Sentences for relaxant
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Adjective
  • Saltz: Lorazepam is in the class of medications called benzodiazepines, which is a depressant, and also sometimes referred to as a sedative hypnotic medication.
    Ben Tinker, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Sailing through international waters, the boat's behavior raised alarms about narcotic trafficking, according to the Coast Guard, which sent a small cutter to intercept it and ultimately found the contraband on board.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Arthur Boyd, 57, pleaded guilty in February to dealing in a narcotic drug.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Thousands of inmates wrongly tested positive for opiate use inside California state prisons last year because of a laboratory mistake, and civil rights attorneys now worry many of them could be denied parole and a chance at freedom because of it.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Craig’s performance is big, sometimes explosively so, and requires not only affected charm, but also deep sadness, the physical turmoil of opiate withdrawal, and some bumbling in the jungle.
    Rich Juzwiak, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • This week, Lorde returns with a hypnotic synth-pop stunner, Young Thug taps Future on his first solo single since his release from jail, and Haim make leaving a relationship sound like a breeze over chill guitars.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Yet, the band took to the Sonora tent at Coachella in Indio, California, for two consecutive weekends, captivating a crowd of nearly 5,000 fans with electrifying performances that seamlessly fused echo-laden keyboards and hypnotic electric guitar riffs into their signature psychedelic cumbia sound.
    Pamela Bustios, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Relaxant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relaxant. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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