as in remedy
something that cures all ills or problems
a woman who seems to believe that chicken soup is a panacea for nearly everything
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Recent Examples of panacea
The alternative, the panacea for that desperation if there is one, is solidarity.
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Matthew Specktor, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
Harnessing Maddow’s star power five nights a week may not prove to be a panacea for all of the network’s challenges as audiences continue to cut the cable cord, executives are banking on it to help buoy the progressive network’s viewership.
—Liam Reilly, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
This sort of thing is not a panacea for the needs of people living on the streets and rights of way in our cities.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Length Through Strength Static stretching is not the panacea for health that it was once thought to be.
—Wes Judd, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2025
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Matthew Specktor, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
Harnessing Maddow’s star power five nights a week may not prove to be a panacea for all of the network’s challenges as audiences continue to cut the cable cord, executives are banking on it to help buoy the progressive network’s viewership.
—Liam Reilly, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
This sort of thing is not a panacea for the needs of people living on the streets and rights of way in our cities.
—Roger Valdez, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Length Through Strength Static stretching is not the panacea for health that it was once thought to be.
—Wes Judd, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2025
See all Example Sentences for panacea
Recent Examples of Synonyms for panacea
Noun
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It is commonly used as a natural remedy for nausea and stomach upset.3 1.—
Lauren O'Connor, MS,
Health,
10 Feb. 2025
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While the state Assembly derailed that initial plan, forfeiting the grant, the push for a practical remedy to gridlock never died.—
DJ Gribbin,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Apple Cider Vinegar, which contrasts Gibson with two genuinely ill young women in her orbit who are searching for miracle cancer cures, comes at the crest of the latest wave of scam content.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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All the same, understanding a Morandi still-life is a pesky illusion that may overtake you, the cure for which is looking again, harder.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Experts say the nourishing elixirs are chock full of active ingredients that do actually spur growth.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
21 Jan. 2025
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Out sprawled a wild sea of glass eyes, silver spurs and mystery elixirs locked into filmy jars.—
Sara Georgini,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Key Takeaway Edutainment isn’t a cure-all the problem of kids being bored at school—that’s inevitable.—
Fiona Tapp,
Parents,
3 Feb. 2025
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Findings from nutrition research is rarely clear-cut because diet is just one of many behaviors and lifestyle factors affecting health, but the simplicity of using food and supplements as a cure-all is especially seductive.—
Aimee Pugh Bernard,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Population trends today should raise serious questions about all the old nostrums that humans are somehow hard-wired to replace themselves to continue the species.—
Nicholas Eberstadt,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Oct. 2024
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“Panacea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panacea. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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