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The oncology team said the kindest route was to sedate Flora, but the palliative care team wanted to give the pain relief more time to take effect.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Patterson's trial last year drew podcasters, film crews and true crime fans to a courthouse in the rural town of Morwell, a sedate hamlet in Victoria better known for its prize-winning roses.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Now, controversy has erupted in one of their more sedate corners: wagers on the weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

Not the raucous patchwork of the Green Mountains, but the sedate brocade of a Massachusetts city.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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

A former deputy church warden could not have have legally caused a university lecturer's death by giving him potentially sedated whisky, the Supreme Court has been told.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

After the incident Rachel was taken to hospital and was sedated.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

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 a recent study, researchers placed electrodes across the scalps of sedated patients, capturing their brain-wave data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Might he have sedated Richard Parker shortly before the ship sank?

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

A: Thank you for reminding us that some herbal products, including tea blends, can be sedating.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

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

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 11, 2023

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 Walter D. Petrovic