sleep-inducing

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In terms of treatment, Janda is currently working on a vaccine to block xylazine’s sleep-inducing effects.

From Slate • May 12, 2024

I'm a history professor who writes sleep-inducing books and articles weighed down by pages of footnotes.

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2022

"Since both of these compounds play an important role in regulating sleep, it seems quite logical that tryptophan has always been fingered as the sleep-inducing culprit behind the Thanksgiving Day nap."

From Fox News • Nov. 24, 2021

If you've already used up all of your best sleep-inducing material in week one of isolation then do not fear, as some movie stars have got your back.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2020

This sacro egoismo of the dream is surely not unconnected with the sleep-inducing cessation of psychic activity which consists, it should be noted, in the withdrawal of interest from the entire external world.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund