sedate

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The overarching mood is more sedate than scintillating; the word “bittersweet” comes up a lot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

The best-performing cruise stock recently had been Viking, which specializes in more intimate and sedate river cruises.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Adichie's sister-in-law, Dr Anthea Esege Nwandu, a physician and professor with decades of experience, said she had been told the boy had been administered an overdose of propofol, to sedate him to conduct MRI tests.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

At the recent Fish and Game Commission meeting, Samantha Murray, commission vice president, described him as having a “steady, calm, like, sedate presence,” and hailed his long institutional knowledge.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

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