soporific
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Before long, what had been a soporific race turned into a surreal one.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
So what would a survivor of a crime portrayed on “Forensic Files” think about his or her own personal tragedy being used as a soporific?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
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
By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler’s mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Exposure to sunlight prevents the brain from producing melatonin and other natural soporifics.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 23, 2016
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
At least these were incendiary devices; elsewhere one found soporifics.
From Time Magazine Archive
The slumber for which Mora begged so persistently, the lethargy, to speak more accurately, lasted a whole night and morning, with partial awakenings caused by excruciating pain which yielded each time to soporifics.
From The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Ives, George Burnham
Vocabulary lists containing soporific
Jane Eyre
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 6
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