soporific
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Yasmina, by contrast, who grows up to be an economic consultant, exists in a world of chilly blue-gray conference rooms and soporific slide shows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Before long, what had been a soporific race turned into a surreal one.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Shimizu is an exploratory jazz musician who has of late gained popularity for his television scores and inoffensively ambient music that employs soporific electronics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
It’s so effective a soporific that most nights I struggle to read for more than 10 minutes, which is both satisfying and maddening.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024
His eyes did not leave the patrons face while his velvet voice rose passionately above the soporific air of the siesta.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Exposure to sunlight prevents the brain from producing melatonin and other natural soporifics.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 23, 2016
At least these were incendiary devices; elsewhere one found soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
It surely ought to work for those viewers lulled these many years by cinema soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of the antihistamines, intended to relieve allergies, are also prescribed as soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the influence of soporifics the same transfer of consciousness is produced, and we meet with more or less remarkable phenomena due to the higher consciousness.
From Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution by Fred Rothwell
Vocabulary lists containing soporific
Jane Eyre
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