How to Use wonder drug in a Sentence

wonder drug

noun
  • All came to his online forum in search of the latest wonder drug.
    Michael Powell, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Then, in 2021, ivermectin became the wonder drug of choice for some anti-vaxxers.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Caffeine is a wonder drug; one that many people can’t start the day without.
    Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2013
  • Aspirin The world's wonder drug may be able to ease everything from headaches to heart attacks.
    Amanda Gardner, Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • But the French soon grew disillusioned with their wonder drug.
    The Conversation, 13 July 2022
  • But this doesn’t mean the CMPV injections are a cancer wonder drug.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
  • It is advertised on TV as a wonder drug to reduce the A1C count for diabetics.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Tylenol, considered by many to be a wonder drug, has been dominating the over-the-counter pain reliever market since the mid-70s.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • As Fentanyl Awareness Day arrived last week, the public got a fresh look at the extremes — lives lost to overdoses and lives saved by the wonder drug Naloxone.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • Aspirin is a wonder drug that has been around for thousands of years naturally and in its current form for a century.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • One doctor talks another into field-testing their new wonder drug, as the first pregnant man.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Microbubble for drug delivery - First place innovation One of the problems with all the wonder drugs science comes up with is getting them where the need to go.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Now comes nicotine, perhaps the most unlikely wonder drug ever to be reviled.
    Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2014
  • At the time interferon was thought of as something of a wonder drug that could be used as an anti-viral and for fighting various cancers.
    Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Gracia Lam Aspirin, the original wonder drug, has long been a go-to medicine for millions, a Jack-of-all trades remedy that is readily available and cheap.
    New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Ivermectin is an over 30-year-old wonder drug that treats life- and sight-threatening parasitic infections.
    Jeffrey R. Aeschlimann, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In the past, some doctors regarded aspirin as something of a wonder drug, capable of protecting healthy patients against a future heart attack or stroke.
    Emily Baumgaertner, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
  • After the deprivations of the second world war, the new wonder drugs were welcomed by farmers, who could sell bigger birds much more cheaply to consumers hungry for affordable protein.
    The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
  • In 1898, Bayer began selling this supposed wonder drug, marketing it as a cough suppressant.
    Jerry Mitchell and Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Nonetheless, researchers have recently found that lithium could be something close to a psychiatric wonder drug.
    Paul Raeburn, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
  • Print Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke email inboxes.
    John Licato, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But for the 2,500 such men returning from World War II, modern wheelchairs offered mobility, and the new wonder drug penicillin cured dangerous infections.
    Annette Sisco, NOLA.com, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The total cost, including the addiction-stopping wonder drug buprenorphine, is estimated at $6 million for two years.
    Matier & Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
  • The most important of these imports was tobacco, which many Europeans considered a wonder drug capable of curing a wide range of human ailments.
    Peter C. Mancall, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Not surprisingly the media were extremely excited about this new wonder drug, but Florey and his colleagues were rather shy of publicity.
    Mark Lorch, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2015
  • Today, some have swung in the other direction, setting their sights on marijuana as a wonder drug with few downsides, even as rates of marijuana addiction are growing.
    Angela Chen, The Verge, 28 July 2018
  • Despite the political crisis, the populist leader has touted chloroquine as a potential wonder drug against the new coronavirus -- like his US counterpart Trump.
    Shasta Darlington and Tara John, CNN, 20 May 2020
  • Kratom is a popular, legal and unregulated substance that many adherents claim is a wonder drug that helps to reduce pain and anxiety, and is an alternative to opioids.
    Daniel Neman, chicagotribune.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • This wonder drug was discovered at the outset of the nineteenth century and since then much progress has been made; opioid derivatives far more powerful than the original morphine molecule have been synthesized.
    Michel Houellebecq, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • Then a military buddy told him about ketamine—the psychedelic drug that doctors have used for decades as an anesthetic and pain reliever and that has gained new popularity as a possible wonder drug for mood disorders.
    Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023

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