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pacifier

[pas-uh-fahy-er] / ˈpæs əˌfaɪ ər /
NOUN
comforter
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NOUN
teething ring
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After clinical assessments, parents were provided the opportunity to introduce the modified pacifier for a 60 second measurement of their infant's intraoral suckling vacuum.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024

Make sure the crib is empty, other than the baby and perhaps a pacifier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

She called herself a "human pacifier" and reluctantly started co-sleeping before realizing she needed to make changes before going back to work.

From Salon ● May 12, 2023

About a third of the kiddos in most classes at the two Seattle area high schools where I teach have just checked out and use them as a pacifier.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

I pick up Raymond, who has green finger paint on his shirt, and Leda, who sucks her pink pacifier.

From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

On one of the days in court, she brought the couple's two young children, who were both dressed in suits with pacifiers in their mouths.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

Plastic is used in all kinds of things, and it is not controversial at all to say that the amount of mercury in, say, pacifiers for babies should be none.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2024

They held clocks, baby pacifiers, napkins and other cleaning equipment, as well as chains they said symbolized the challenges that domestic servants face in Indonesia.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Babies "R" Us was the go-to destination for parents looking for cribs, pacifiers and diaper bags until stores were shut in June 2018.

From Reuters ● Jan. 10, 2023

Both of them always dropping their rattles or rubber pacifiers and tangling themselves in blankets, why so tortured, little angels?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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