lull into

1. Deceive into trustfulness, as in The steadily rising market lulled investors into a false sense of security. The earliest recorded version of this term referred to wine: “Fitter indeed to bring and lull men asleep in the bed of security” (Philemon Holland, Pliny's Historie of the World, 1601. Today it still often appears with the phrase a false sense of security.

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“The process is to make sure we translate the current lull into a more lasting cease-fire and then talk about more mundane stuff of settling the conflict.”

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“At night my dad has a couple of whiskeys and my mom has a Pinot Grigio and they lull into the night. I just don’t want to do that.”

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Maestri said the company had taken the usual lull into account in its projections for the September quarter.

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And they took that advantage after enduring a 3-hour, 28-minute rain delay in the seventh, one that turned a day game into a night game and inserted a lull into the intensity.

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The London Review of Reviews said in an article on "The D�b�cle of Norman Angell": Mr. Norman Angell's theory was one to enable the citizens of this country to sleep quietly, and to lull into false security the citizens of all great countries.

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