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pacifier

[pas-uh-fahy-er] / ˈpæs əˌfaɪ ər /
NOUN
comforter
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NOUN
teething ring
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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

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

Make sure the crib is empty, other than the baby and perhaps a pacifier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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

I can’t believe Leda left her pink pacifier on the bed.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

On one of the days in court, she brought the couple's two young children, who were both dressed in suits with pacifiers in their mouths.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

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

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

He said games as if he’d said pacifiers or tricycles.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman


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