tranquilizing

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In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. famously referred to the "tranquilizing drug of gradualism" to highlight the urgency of seeing continuity between histories of racial injustice and contemporary inequalities.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2023

Grubert says the aim is to catch the animal, if necessary by tranquilizing it.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

There, the researchers count bears, tranquilizing and tagging some to collect data about their health.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 4, 2022

Tender but emphatic, Kong’s effect is equal parts fearsome and tranquilizing; in this stage version, we come to see the kinship between Kong and Ann not as a study in opposites but in shared alienation.

From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2018

When the public protests, confronted with some obvious evidence of damaging results of pesticide applications, it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half truth.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson