pacifier
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The software records data as an infant sucks on the pacifier and compares that data with information from other infants.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
As a counterpoint, Tiny alleged in the footage that that’s where King was allowed to use a pacifier until he was 12.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 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
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 had tons of your old stuff piled on the bed: a pair of tiny sneakers, your frilly white baptism dress, even a gross chewed-on pacifier.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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
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