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He's training a young cop, he's quietly gay, and he's addicted to pain-killers due to a back injury.
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The circumstances of his being caught with the banned substance Clenbuterol in his system proved beyond a rational explanation and Beck's contention that he might have taken his mother's illegal pain-killers by mistake was no less convincing than his alternative alibi: having his drink spiked in a Bratislava nightclub.
Australian Open 2011: Karol Beck hopes to surprise Andy Murray 2011
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The word in Tante Marie-Françoise's piece that caught my eye was "anodin" ( "conversations anodines"); a similar-looking word in English is "anodyne", which refers to pain-killers or analgesics.
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Adults get a lot of pain-killers (physical and emotional).
Francine Hardaway: Americans on Drugs Francine Hardaway 2010
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There is some overlap with respect to prescription pain-killers such as oxycontin. gordon gekko Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Out of the Insane Asylum, and Into the Prison 2009
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The word in Tante Marie-Françoise's piece that caught my eye was "anodin" ( "conversations anodines"); a similar-looking word in English is "anodyne", which refers to pain-killers or analgesics.
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The arsenal of pain-killers, antibiotics, blood-pressure reducers and so forth is already large.
Health Care Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Maybe you refuse treatment and only accept pain-killers (or pain-numbers).
ProWomanProLife » A right to die isn’t the same as state-sanctioned euthanasia 2009
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The word in Tante Marie-Françoise's piece that caught my eye was "anodin" ( "conversations anodines"); a similar-looking word in English is "anodyne", which refers to pain-killers or analgesics.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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The word in Tante Marie-Françoise's piece that caught my eye was "anodin" ( "conversations anodines"); a similar-looking word in English is "anodyne", which refers to pain-killers or analgesics.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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