How to Use miracle drug in a Sentence

miracle drug

noun
  • The miracle drug she had been promised her whole life was now in her hands.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Was this stunning result the work of some new miracle drug designed to combat dementia?
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 June 2024
  • Semaglutide drugs have been called many things: a cure-all, a money grab, a cop-out, a miracle drug.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • But what’s clear right now is that taking one of the current miracle drugs is not without stress.
    Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
  • However, this weight loss shot isn’t meant as a miracle drug.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 4 Mar. 2022
  • In 2019, the FDA approved a gene therapy for the disease, Zolgensma, that has been hailed as a miracle drug.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • That kind of miracle drug won’t be developed overnight.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • An article shared on Vice also notes how the pill isn’t a miracle drug, though the testing here is not nearly as well designed.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 20 July 2022
  • Trump has latched on to the notion that these could be highly effective treatments, even miracle drugs.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
  • In later years, interferon didn’t turn out to be quite the miracle drug it was initially thought to be, but it is still used in the treatment of some cancers.
    Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 14 Dec. 2017
  • In my opinion, this is a miracle drug that needs to be evaluated and explored even further.
    Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
  • Their chief product is Joy, a miracle drug that also contains the T-virus, which is what turns the infected into monsters.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 June 2022
  • Methadone, their miracle drug, isn’t a cure for heroin addiction.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a lot of evidence now proving that exercise is like a miracle drug.
    WIRED, 27 June 2023
  • With no miracle drug on the horizon, what's the prescription for fighting off dementia?
    CBS News, 3 Jan. 2021
  • Antibiotics have since saved millions of lives, but now the power of these miracle drugs is in serious jeopardy.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Not a magic potion Toni Camacho doesn’t claim turmeric is some kind of miracle drug.
    Doug Williams, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • As the miracle drugs make headlines, the topic of obesity is again at the forefront of the social consciousness—and the debate that accompanies it.
    Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The most important information in your article is that this is not a short-term miracle drug.
    Lizzy Acker, oregonlive, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Obesity experts say there are other reasons the miracle drugs give them pause.
    The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Feb. 2023
  • If a company wanted to put mercury or cocaine in their miracle drug, the Bureau of Chemistry had no problem with that — so long as it was mentioned on the label.
    New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Accutane has been hailed as a miracle drug for people with severe acne.
    Korin Miller, Health.com, 20 May 2021
  • The fungus Penicillium chrysogenum is the source of penicillin, the antibiotic that was viewed a miracle drug after mass production began in the 1940s.
    Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2011
  • Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Diana Mansfield credits her life to a miracle drug.
    Gabe Castro-Root, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 June 2023
  • Well, 18 hours later, a time span that included oft-withering criticism of Strasburg, the Nationals must have found a miracle drug.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Thorazine, initially touted as a miracle drug, soon proved to have serious side effects.
    Alisa Roth, The Atlantic, 25 May 2021
  • Will anyone who breathlessly pitched hydroxychloroquine as a miracle drug show a modicum of regret or even self-awareness over this?
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 22 Apr. 2020
  • On March 26th, the President touted the malaria treatment hydroxychloroquine as a miracle drug to combat the coronavirus.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 26 June 2020
  • The drug has become a favorite of celebrities, billionaires and ordinary patients, many of whom view it as a potential miracle drug for depression and other mental health conditions.
    Darius Tahir, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Suppose a pharmaceutical company comes up with a new miracle drug that can cure some terrible ailment.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021

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