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Patterson's trial last year drew podcasters, film crews and true crime fans to a courthouse in the rural town of Morwell, a sedate hamlet in Victoria better known for its prize-winning roses.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Now, controversy has erupted in one of their more sedate corners: wagers on the weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Nursing homes have a powerful incentive to sedate residents, and comparatively few people are watching.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

James said living in the East Nuek of Fife had also influenced the game's premise of a "spooky mystery happening in this small sedate seaside town".

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026

The house—for the most part designed by Mr. Clutter, who thereby proved himself a sensible and sedate, if not notably decorative, architect—had been built in 1948 for forty thousand dollars.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s or mild cognitive impairment will quickly find that lecanemab is not a neurological medication that sedates, stimulates or dampens pain.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 27, 2023

To determine if a sturgeon is female, a worker first sedates the fish in a trough with a small electric current.

From The Guardian ● May 14, 2018

Sedation may be needed, for example, if a 3-year-old requires root canals for badly decayed molars or has a throbbing abscess, said Dr. Casamassimo, who sedates children at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2017

Later, as the news spreads with the virus and terror propels the population into rabid belligerence, the movie sedates its pulse, softens its focus and threatens to become a straightfaced Zombieland.

From Time ● Sep. 4, 2011

A careful, perhaps too conventional interpretation of a play that sheds less light on its subject than it does on the mind of Playwright Bernard Shaw, who sometimes dates but never sedates.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fortunately for him, Viking’s river cruises specialize in sedated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Others worry about the invasiveness of a colonoscopy and undergoing anesthesia or are too sick with a chronic disease to be sedated.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026

“So pleased it’s been sedated and removed. Great job!” wrote one Facebook follower.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Mishka the Amur tiger was sedated in her habitat and transported to the scanner, where vets were looking for any bone and spinal changes.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Might he have sedated Richard Parker shortly before the ship sank?

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

On Friday authorities began sedating them to carry out health checks before cleaning and sterilizing them and inking them with tattoos so they can be identified to keep accurate records.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024

In the operating room, before they began sedating me, I heard the surgeon enter the room, take a look at the pacemaker, and pronounce that it was the wrong model.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024

"We know that nursing homes with lower staffing levels use more antipsychotics. These medications may be compensating for understaffing by sedating residents instead of having adequate staff to support their needs," said Travers.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

Using eDNA could also help scientists work in places where Indigenous communities oppose sedating bears because of concerns over tainted meat, he adds, or where there are animal welfare concerns.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 5, 2023

What is then given should have the power of sedating the nervous fluids, while it disseminates through the viscera the elements of nutrition.

From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith