How to Use pharma in a Sentence

pharma

noun

• Well, Monday was a day for the pharma team to chalk up a win.
  — Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017
• Three big deals kicked off the week — two in pharma, one in finance.
  — Dana Pardini, Bloomberg.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• In the battle over high drug prices, big pharma is starting to strike the right note.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2017
• There’s a lot of med-device in this town, but not a lot of pharma-type stuff, not a lot of biotech.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
• At the same time, more than half the world’s large pharma companies are based here.
  — David A. Ricks, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
• Bollyky ventured that the WHO may have lacked the money or clout to take on big pharma.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
• Big pharma could pay for this with a percentage of their huge profits.
  — Time, 22 Feb. 2018
• Overhiring by pharma had put many back on the job market.
  — NBC News, 9 June 2017
• Expect that point to be rammed home in the future when governments again turn their wrath on big pharma over high prices.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2020
• Midsized and biggish bio-pharma firms, for instance, have done far better than the very largest ones.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• Big pharma is still splurging on R&D but not making out like a bandit.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Unlike the Camp plan, the minimum tax system wouldn't just apply to tech or pharma products shipped to the US, but those sold all over the world.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
• Dopesick takes a look at America's opioid crisis through the lens of addicts and big pharma.
  — Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2022
• The measure died in committee after the pharma lobby staged its flash mob at the 2016 meeting.
  — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• As the pandemic began last year, Soriot, 61, was the hottest CEO in big pharma.
  — Nathan Vardi, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Your corrupt pharma giant is called Dr. Smile; his wife is named Happy.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• Trust us, every pharma company has already thought of this one and has been working on it.
  — Zuzu Snyder, Marie Claire, 10 Oct. 2019
• The song talks about big pharma, the environment and drones, which are more evergreen than, say, name-checking Robert Mueller.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2019
• Even so, the vote prompted speculation that a pharma price deal might be within reach.
  — Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News, 25 Sep. 2017
• The molecules aren’t a slam dunk, and would take perhaps a year of lab work to refine—meaning the AI wouldn’t save a big pharma company much time, if any.
  — Wired, 2 Sep. 2019
• Max Nisen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, pharma and health care.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• Brett initially covered bioethics for the Pro team and more recently, handled the pharma beat.
  — Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
• Nisen is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering biotech, pharma and health care.
  — Max Nisen, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• How could big pharma not register with people right now?
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 30 July 2021
• Energy companies, big industries, big pharma and the like are the ones pushing this agenda of the Court.
  — Richard Schiffman, Scientific American, 8 July 2022
• Sarepta is a contender, but so are the small biotech Solid Biosciences and pharma giant Pfizer.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 19 June 2018
• The state, which leads the country in opioid deaths, is suing five pharma companies because of the epidemic.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• Cleary’s parents problems predated the meteoric rise of Purdue in the realm of big pharma.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 June 2018
• Fortune Weight loss for less Danish pharma sensation Novo Nordisk fell under the spotlight for the wrong reasons last week.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
• That hasn’t stopped pharma companies from pursuing GIP as a target.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024