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soporific

[sop-uh-rif-ik, soh-puh-] / ˌsɒp əˈrɪf ɪk, ˌsoʊ pə- /


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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

The sell-out race, which sees around 300,000 fans gather in north-west France, was a soporific event in 2025, with fewer incidents and accidents between the 62 cars which began the race than usual.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2025

Musty retreads of Ibsen and Chekhov, besides being counter to the maverick spirit of their play, can be soporific endurance tests.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2024

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

Eerily, the taped music comes on over the intercom, saccharine, soporific.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Exposure to sunlight prevents the brain from producing melatonin and other natural soporifics.

From Science Magazine Nov. 23, 2016

Kennedy unemotionally traced the misconceptions and the soporifics that lulled England during the prewar years.

From Time Magazine Archive

It surely ought to work for those viewers lulled these many years by cinema soporifics.

From Time Magazine Archive

At least these were incendiary devices; elsewhere one found soporifics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Uncommonly fine soporifics are they; But they seem after Tennyson, Shelley, and Poe Just a trifle too Rosy for Billy Barlow— Oh, dear Raggedy, oh!

From In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences by Felix Moscheles




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