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Recent Examples of Synonyms for depressant
Adjective
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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
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Ashwagandha comes with natural relaxant properties to calm down your mind and recharge your brain.—
Discover Magazine,
Discover Magazine,
29 Apr. 2023
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Perhaps most interesting is its airway relaxant potential in the treatment of asthma [2].—
Alice Chi Phung,
Discover Magazine,
24 June 2014
Adjective
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In the Portland area, health officials said 56% of cases were among people experiencing homelessness and 55% of cases reported methamphetamine and/or opiate usage.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
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Notably, this opiate pathway was not activated in the rodents' brains when they were given additional regular or fatty food, rather than sugar; and when the pathway was blocked, full mice seemed to lose their metaphorical dessert stomachs and did not eat extra sugar.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Arthur Boyd, 57, pleaded guilty in February to dealing in a narcotic drug.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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She was given two years probation for each count, while two additional charges — a felony count of narcotic drug possession and misdemeanor count of drug paraphernalia possession — were dismissed.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Come for the lingering glamour shots of Keene and Hyland, resplendent in their 1930s finery, stay for the hypnotic overhead shots of the rocky coast off Gull’s Point.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
18 Apr. 2025
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The short plunges viewers into a hypnotic, psychological clash between light and dark.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Rather than aiming for the unique, which might pierce our haze of distraction, art has succumbed to marketable generalities: stock music on Spotify, soporific streams of Netflix content.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
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While Anton Chekhov always thought of The Seagull as a comedy, that fact has frequently been forgotten through productions that fall into the soporific trap set by angsty, moping, lovelorn characters losing their hearts and minds in the Russian countryside.—
Demetrios Matheou,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Depressant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depressant. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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