quieting

Example Sentences

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"This offers a tangible path toward creating a medication that has a similar quieting effect as meditation."

From Science Daily • Jan. 2, 2026

And yet it is precisely a lack of hyperbole or hysteria—a quieting control, one might say — that makes it so moving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

They beat them in the first week of the season, quieting the noise around Domantas Sabonis’ dominance against Anthony Davis.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024

Throughout his campaign, Cox told me, Zuckerman had downplayed his anti-immigration views, and he had succeeded in quieting his opponents.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

The horses were coming back, through the gate, wet and sweating, the jockeys quieting them and riding up to dismount under the trees.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway