pacifier
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Either way, it’s a very expensive and public equivalent of giving a pacifier to an infant.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
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
Prior studies have shown that non-nutritive suckling on a pacifier produces data that can be used to evaluate breastfeeding.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
About a third of the kiddos in most classes at the two Seattle area high schools where I teach have just checked out and use them as a pacifier.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
A woman hushed a fretful baby with a pacifier.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Plastic is used in all kinds of things, and it is not controversial at all to say that the amount of mercury in, say, pacifiers for babies should be none.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2024
Essex Police said pacifiers were taken from babies in Harlow on four occasions between 10 February and 7 August.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2023
They held clocks, baby pacifiers, napkins and other cleaning equipment, as well as chains they said symbolized the challenges that domestic servants face in Indonesia.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2023
Babies "R" Us was the go-to destination for parents looking for cribs, pacifiers and diaper bags until stores were shut in June 2018.
From Reuters ● Jan. 10, 2023
Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels?
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
