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adj. - Tending to soothe or calm down.

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  • It harms the brain, suspends or annihilates critical thought, pollutes the mind, dumbing it down and tranquilising it with endless trivia, cultivating dissatisfaction...
  • Sudden irregularities and constrictions cause small waves to break, and jets to impact the water, trapping bubbles of air; cavitation creates bubbles of water vapour where the...
  • Acting in conformity with this shallow and false estimate of the situation, they allowed to drift away unused the time which wise statesmen would have employed in the...
  • Then Lindsey German was up, doing a decent job of tranquilising that elephant.
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