pacifier

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Occasional weird inventions are folded in: a “hambulance” delivering ham; food trucks selling potato ice cream and soup on a stick; something called Pacifier Shirt Syndrome, caused by rubbing a dropped pacifier on a short.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

While Kindergarten Cop has a forgivable 50% rating on review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, both The Pacifier and Playing With Fire score just 21%.

From The Guardian • Mar. 10, 2020

The American Pacifier thesis is a plausible causal explanation for an empirical reality: the world really is more peaceful and more stable.

From Time • Jan. 14, 2017

Colin Fieman, a Tacoma-based federal public defender who is overseeing a national database of Operation Pacifier prosecutions, said he was disappointed in Bryan’s ruling.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2016

He was given the high sounding title of Ping-si Wang, or Prince Pacifier of the West, and many other honors.

From China by Boulger, Demetrius Charles