as in sedative
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Recent Examples of relaxant
Ashwagandha comes with natural relaxant properties to calm down your mind and recharge your brain.
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Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
Perhaps most interesting is its airway relaxant potential in the treatment of asthma [2].
—Alice Chi Phung, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2014
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In any case, chamomile flowers—which look like adorable, tiny daisies—contain flavonoids, terpenoids, and coumarins which certainly have mildly sedative, anti-inflammatory, and antispasmodic properties.Valentina Bottoni, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2024
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The population is impatient and the sedative effect of the impeachment process will soon wear off, which could mean new protests and instability if there are no significant changes in the short term.Moisés Costa, Foreign Affairs, 16 May 2016
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Chelsea, 27, was arrested in Marinette County, Wis., on Nov. 18, on two felony counts of possession of methamphetamine, a felony count of possession of narcotic drugs and two felony counts of bail jumping, according to court records obtained by PEOPLE.Charna Flam, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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Authorities charged Chelsea O'Donnell with two counts of felony possession of methamphetamine along with the felony charge of possession of narcotic drugs, according to court records viewed by Fox News Digital.Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
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The drama plays out against the background of a local opiate crisis.Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
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Most of them suffer from opiate addiction or some form of mental illness.Andrea O'Connor, Baltimore Sun, 13 Nov. 2024
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Except as a form of hypnotic relaxation, even watching seems beside the point.Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Born January 12, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey, George Kresge was inspired to become a mentalist by Lee Falk’s crime solving comic strip Mandrake the Magician, whose work was based on an unusually fast hypnotic technique.Marc Berman, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Relaxant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relaxant. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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