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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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for relaxant
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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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Legend has it that Apollo prevented his muse priestess from brewing, imbibing or smoking laurel leaves, which have a mild narcotic property.Alison Habens, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2024
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Fleming was also being charged on suspicion of dangerous drug possession or use, false report to law enforcement, drug paraphernalia possession or use, and narcotic drug possession or use, according to jail records.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2024
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In a video posted to YouTube Monday (Nov. 4), the producer tells this story alongside Jordan Hamilton, the CEO of Choice House, the Colorado addiction and mental health treatment center for men where Illenium (born Nick Miller) got sober more than a decade ago after an opiate addiction.Katie Bain, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Well, as Makena's investigation shows, for over a decade, he's been posting on Reddit about his use of a genuinely staggering range of drugs, including cocaine, various opiate derivatives, MDMA.Leah Feiger, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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And it’s been satisfyingly fun and hypnotic to use in my experience.Scott Kramer, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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The self gets effaced and re-created in so many cross hatches, small threads, and hypnotic patterns.Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Relaxant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/relaxant. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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