Sentence examples for as a pacifier from inspiring English sources

A Texan study earlier this year linked phone use and emotional instability, claiming that "incessant" checking acts as a pacifier, a distraction from the rubbishness of modern life.

Zama, a former military hero renowned as a "pacifier of Indians," has been dispatched to Asunción, in the humid scrubland of what is now Paraguay.

But then again, what would be more jarring in the average suburban home than a sudden eruption of Anglo-Saxon expletives in a film that will doubtless be used as a pacifier by many busy parents?

Ebisu is also sometimes associated with Koto-shiro-nushi ("Sign-Master"), a son of the mythological hero Ōkuninushi and associated with happiness because of the role he once played as a pacifier in a conflict between earthly and heavenly deities.

That cycle can be perpetuated by the stigma against obesity, which can make people feel worse about themselves and turn to food as a pacifier.

I'm all for exercising to online workouts in the living room while babies play or nap, but the lure of the screen as a pacifier for new parents, as well as for new babies, is dangerously seductive.

Animal studies suggest that sweet taste may involve opioids, while rhythmic oral movements, as with a pacifier, increase the release of serotonin, which is involved in the gating of nociceptive afferents.

The design of the present study followed the precepts of the Bioecological Theory of Human Development (BTHD) to assess the complex factors related to the interactions between mothers and their preterm infants with regard to whether to introduce a pacifier, as well as the influence of individuals who provide direct social support to the mother.

Pacifier use was defined as a regular pacifier sucking habit.

Group A included participants whose children had used or were still using pacifiers; Group B included participants whose children had never used a pacifier as a habit.

"Why do people feel they have the right to criticize a parent about their own children without having any facts ??" the soccer star wrote Monday on Instagram, where he shared a screenshot of the report calling him out for letting his 4-year-old daughter Harper suck on a pacifier, as seen below.