sleeping pill
noun
: a drug and especially a barbiturate that is taken as a tablet or capsule to induce sleep
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Authorities say that the night before, New Year’s Eve 2020, Janks, then 36, drugged Merriman with pain and sleeping pills before fatally suffocating him.
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Liam Quinn, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
For his troubles, Stephen gets a few stitches and sleeping pills, but there’s zero sense that he’s come to his actual senses.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Her husband sedated her with sleeping pills and filmed the men abusing her.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Miri withers away in grief and eventually takes her own life by swallowing a nonlethal dose of sleeping pills, tying her legs up with nylon rope, and leaping into the local river.
—Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Liam Quinn, People.com, 12 Jan. 2025
For his troubles, Stephen gets a few stitches and sleeping pills, but there’s zero sense that he’s come to his actual senses.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
Her husband sedated her with sleeping pills and filmed the men abusing her.
—Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
Miri withers away in grief and eventually takes her own life by swallowing a nonlethal dose of sleeping pills, tying her legs up with nylon rope, and leaping into the local river.
—Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Sleeping pill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleeping%20pill. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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