opiate
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But fame has a way of upgrading your perception of everything it touches; it installs a gloss that no one likes to revoke — the illusion it supplies is too effective an opiate.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023
If sports don't trump religion as the opiate of the masses, they have, until recently, been at least the background music of most of our lives.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2020
Sir Peter was also criticised by family members of patients who died after being given opiate drugs at Gosport War Memorial Hospital between 1987 and 2001.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2020
“The opiate of the masses,” I snootily replied on e-vites to sports-based gatherings.
From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2018
Both of them overburdened and ill-equipped, weak by nature or circumstance, married to strong-willed, selfish men, addicted to the opiate of sleep.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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