How to Use nostrum in a Sentence

nostrum

noun

• The old nostrum that France is ungovernable may be tested again.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2022
• Christie’s other nostrum is to raise the retirement age.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• More books, based on the Course, followed at a regular clip — at least six have climbed the New York Times best-seller list — each offering nostrums on the curative power of thought.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 5 July 2019
• This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why Schumer’s nostrum is the economic equivalent of doctors who centuries ago thought bleeding patients was a great cure for all sorts of ailments.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Medical patients resort to useless nostrums all the time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
• This good-governance nostrum, like many, is case-specific.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 22 May 2018
• Yet Republicans show no doubts about their favorite nostrum.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Never in modern times has an occupant of the Oval Office seemed to reject so thoroughly the nostrum that a president’s duty is to bring the country together.
  — NBC News, 25 Sep. 2017
• Marketers of economic nostrums such as cryptocurrency and gold investments don’t win customers by proclaiming that happy days are here again.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Talmadge was a reactionary who had come to big business’ notice by promoting such crude anti-labor nostrums as concentration camps for strikers and moving on to attacks on New Deal reforms.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• Good-guy Stevie’s ambiguous love lyric is superficially in sync with Biden’s tentative nostrum.
  — Armond White, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
• America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy, not revolution but restoration.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 19 June 2019
• Perhaps there is a more natural nostrum – partial and insufficient, but helpful nonetheless – closer to hand.
  — Pavel Goldstein, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2018
• The alternative-energy nostrum is make-believe, as are the other administration excuses for the sharp increase in gasoline prices.
  — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022
• Wayne was married three times and aged into a parody of himself, playing slight variations on the same role while in his political life spouting Bircher-ish nostrums about patriotism as compensation for his guilt over not fighting in the war.
  — Scott Stossel, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• Studies reporting behavioral improvement from treatment with turmeric and green tea vex skeptics of dietary nostrums.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• Another consequence is that the focus on arming teachers and other nostrums directed at school campus safety shifts attention from gun-safety policies much more likely to work.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• But writers such as Holiday attempt to transform Stoicism into an antibiotic or nostrum.
  — Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• The nostrums of 12-step recovery, even with Emma resisting them bitterly, are not inherently dramatic.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• Cohen and DeLong titled their book Concrete Economics to distinguish their ideas from the purely abstract, empirically untethered nostrums of the unfettered free market.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
• In short, a substantial share of right-leaning voters in this country were willing to embrace, or at least countenance, a brand of conservative politics with fewer free-market nostrums and more appeals to potent sociocultural anxieties.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Yorker, 21 July 2019
• The implications for Social Security reform nostrums are major.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Alas, Goop's success is yet another example of how hawking misinformation, pseudoscience, and nostrum to the disaffected is extremely lucrative.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
• Worthless nostrums such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been promoted based on transparently bogus evidence.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Too complicated for ad-hoc policymaking and simplistic conservative nostrums.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024