How to Use silver bullet in a Sentence

silver bullet

noun
  • But the new masks are not a silver bullet, Pavia warned.
    Erin Alberty, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2021
  • But don't expect that time to be the silver bullet that solves all the team's issues.
    Kent Youngblood, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • There is no silver bullet, but there are some steps that could help.
    New York Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The Fed doesn't have a silver bullet, and the central bank could use more help from Congress.
    Charles Riley and Hanna Ziady, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Getting more food out of the land is a big problem, and there is no silver bullet.
    Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Aduhelm is not a silver bullet in the battle against Alzheimer’s, and the hand-wringing critics are wrong to hold it to that standard.
    Andrew C. Von Eschenbach Reprints, STAT, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Your only chance of survival is to shoot the werewolf with silver bullets.
    Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Otam Yachts is locked, loaded and ready to fire another silver bullet on the high seas.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 May 2021
  • None of these initiatives is a silver bullet, but each shows progress.
    Lance Robertson, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But this time, the silver bullet appears to have been shot from the inside by one woman: Frances Haugen.
    Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But too often, people view them as a silver bullet for weight loss.
    Mandy Conrad, Discover Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Much post-binge myth is made around the cheeseburger-with-the-works and its attendant bucket of home fries as the silver bullet.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2023
  • There is no question that post-cookies, there will be no silver bullet or easy fix.
    David Yovanno, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • At the same time, the lessons of the last few years have made clear that there’s no silver bullet to curtailing the world’s dependency on China.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2022
  • There’s no silver bullet for avoiding these threats, but a few smart practices can go a long way toward that goal.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 July 2023
  • Tutoring is not a silver bullet, more like one arrow in a quiver.
    oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Rather than silver bullets, management needs to return to its roots and the core disciplines that made the company great in the first place.
    Cassandra Frangos, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • But Garcetti would not go so far as to call it a silver bullet for lagging transit ridership.
    Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
  • The consensus is clear: There is no silver bullet Ukraine can develop that will win this war.
    Justin Ling, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
  • But for practical reasons, including the need for testing and cost, the pill is not a silver bullet.
    Yasmin Tayag, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But there is no silver bullet capable of turning the tide on the battlefield.
    Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Whitmer and her team pointed to the growing availability of vaccines as the silver bullet to get the state back to normal.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2021
  • The governor sees no silver bullet to end the pandemic.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2022
  • As the president said, even the $3 billion in aid expected from the IMF won’t be a silver bullet to Ghana’s deepest problems.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But, unfortunately, the best way to do that with a silver bullet is to have the highest court in the land adjudicate it.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2020
  • While there is no silver bullet, there are leading practices.
    Beena Ammanath, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • There are a number of potential avenues but none is a silver bullet and all involve trade-offs.
    Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2021
  • There's no silver bullet to address all the challenges faced by our industry.
    Bob Karschnia, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Murphy agreed that, in the end, there is no silver bullet transit solution.
    Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • But while the program is paving the way for a gradual unlocking of the country over the next four months, the government isn’t treating it as a silver bullet.
    Jason Douglas, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021

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