pacifier

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

After clinical assessments, parents were provided the opportunity to introduce the modified pacifier for a 60 second measurement of their infant's intraoral suckling vacuum.

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

She called herself a "human pacifier" and reluctantly started co-sleeping before realizing she needed to make changes before going back to work.

From Salon ● May 12, 2023

When a mother—harried, in heels—clip-clopped past her, Madeline Ryan scooped up a pacifier thrown out of the stroller and raced after them to hand it over.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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