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Based on a novel by Leonie Swann, this soft, sedate mystery comedy seeks nothing more than to be like its heroes: warm and fuzzy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

There was another two-star review from the Guardian's Arifa Akbar, who said the show's atmosphere is "sedate", with "no peril whatsoever".

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Distinguished by different hairdos and contrasting body language, Douglas, who can will himself to appear sedate, and James, who’s in a continual manic spiral, have more in common than either would care to admit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

Judge Willmore sat elevated, sedate, tie barely showing over the top of his black robe, his torso seeming nearly to shrink behind the bench.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

It sedates the dog but is not an anti-anxiety medication.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2016

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

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

In October, a Tijuana man was indicted after officers found two emaciated and potentially sedated orange-fronted parakeets stuffed in his underwear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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

I was completely sedated for my previous births, which was the mode of the day, but by the time Sofia was born times had changed, and I was awake and so completely and utterly thrilled!

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

The doctors kept her sedated the rest of that day and night to rest.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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

The process of sedating and capturing a rhino is complex and risky.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 11, 2023

It was a dramatic rescue that involved sedating the children to get them out - and few thought it would succeed.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2022

Although she was escorted to the Lord's house by her betrothed Hartford, she had left him for the comfort of the sedating gardens.

From Scorched Earth by Petrovic, Walter D.