How to Use placebo in a Sentence

placebo

noun

• 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
• Twelve people from the placebo group died in the same timeframe.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 14 Dec. 2021
• There was one death in the treatment group, compared with nine deaths in the placebo group.
  — Travis Caldwell and Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
• Among the placebo group, the average weight loss was 0.6%.
  — Bronwyn Thompson september 09, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2024
• And there were no deaths in the group that got the drug and ate, unfortunately in the group that got the placebo.
  — USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
• 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
• In the placebo group, six of the 72 patients got worse, and four were hospitalized.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
• 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
• In that study, the placebo group had a recurrence of symptoms in 1.5% of cases.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 8 Aug. 2022
• People shown the ad were 14 points more likely to vote for a Democrat than those shown a placebo ad.
  — Time, 26 Oct. 2022
• There were nine deaths in the placebo group in the final analysis, and one in the molnupiravir group.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 25 Dec. 2021
• The 61-year-old from Wilton, Connecticut, got the placebo, but still quit drinking.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2022
• Half of this group was assigned to take Paxlovid twice daily for five days; the other half got a placebo.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 15 June 2022
• There were three cases of Covid in the vaccine group, compared with 16 cases in the placebo group.
  — NBC News, 26 Oct. 2021
• Those who received the placebo were then offered the vaccine.
  — Sarah Toy, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Nearly every person who had come down with Covid-19 had been in the placebo group.
  — Gregory Zuckerman, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2021
• Those who took the placebo lost 2.1% of their body weight after that same time period.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 6 Feb. 2025
• One critique of the study is there was no proper placebo control.
  — Steven Salzberg, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• This will be a first-of-its kind randomized test with a placebo control.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2022
• In most trials, the actual drug is swapped with a placebo or a dummy drug for up to half of the patients.
  — Ganes Kesari, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• 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 that had been injected with the placebo did not improve.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Nov. 2021
• New dietary guidelines will weigh risks and benefits Half received low-dose injections of semaglutide each week and half received a placebo shot.
  — Meg Tirrell, CNN, 12 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025