How to Use placebo in a Sentence

placebo

noun

• As a control, some were given a placebo instead of progesterone.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• The 61-year-old from Wilton, Connecticut, got the placebo, but still quit drinking.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2022
• To try to achieve this, the researchers chose a generic antihistamine with some psychoactive effects as the placebo.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2022
• Participants who consumed baking soda in a study involving strength training were able to do more reps with less muscle fatigue than the placebo group.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
• Heart scans revealed that dogs that had received rapamycin in that study, published in 2017, had improved heart function compared to dogs that got a placebo.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 5 Sep. 2022
• About half of those who received psilocybin stopped drinking altogether eight months after their first dose, while about 24 percent of the placebo group quit drinking.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
• After eight weeks, 87% of those using the topical onion juice experienced hair regrowth vs. 13% in the placebo group.
  — Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
• Their data shows that about 2% of people showed present or persistent viral load rebound, a share that was similar among both those treated with Paxlovid and the placebo group that wasn't.
  — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 26 Aug. 2022
• Studies on cells have shown increases in cellular damage in experimental subjects who took antioxidants, compared with those who took a placebo.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 31 Aug. 2022
• The placebo’s effects were small, in absolute terms, and didn’t exaggerate Vascepa’s benefits, the company said.
  — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• But the 2020 study had to be stopped early when three women (two who took the placebo, and one who took the progesterone) experienced bleeding heavy enough to send them to the emergency room.
  — WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• About 7,000 of the patients took Nexletol, and the rest took a placebo.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• Two thirds of the participants got the peanut patch, while the rest got a placebo patch.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• At the end of the trial, the women who took probiotics lost more weight than those in the placebo arm.
  — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
• The drug slowed the rate of cognitive decline by 35% compared to a placebo.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 3 May 2023
• Not being able to test against a placebo makes the study of these drugs much more difficult.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
• Those on the placebo only lost an average of 3.1% of their body weight.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• Half the patients received hookworms for the treatment and half got a placebo.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 31 July 2023
• The study found that the median time to sustained recovery was 11 days in the ivermectin group and 11 days in the placebo group.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2023
• People shown the ad were 14 points more likely to vote for a Democrat than those shown a placebo ad.
  — Time, 26 Oct. 2022
• At the end of the study, 19 patients who received the placebo had died compared with only 1 death in the group that received AZT.
  — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• And in the trial, 17.3% of volunteers who got the drug had signs of brain bleeding, compared with 9% of those who took a placebo.
  — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• The patients in the trial who took Nexletol had a higher incidence of gout than the placebo group.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
• Those receiving the active gel had about the same rate of heart attack and stroke as those receiving the placebo, the study found.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Alzheimer’s compared with those on a placebo after 18 months.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 6 Oct. 2022
• About 17% of the Leqembi group experienced brain bleeds, compared with 9% in the placebo group.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023
• Meanwhile, none of the 20 people in the placebo group (who only used the carrier oils) saw these results.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 2 May 2024
• During the first month, the participants’ pain improved in both the placebo and methotrexate groups.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2023
• The supplement users had half the number of errors on this test compared to those taking a placebo.
  — Kristen Fischer, Health, 15 Mar. 2024
• That is almost identical to the 6.0% who died while taking placebo.
  — Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024