How to Use panacea in a Sentence

panacea

noun
  • The law will improve the lives of local farmers, but it is no panacea.
  • For all the research, all the grants, all the talk — there’s still no panacea.
    Megan Schrader, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
  • The advice wasn’t so much a panacea as a flash of hope.
    Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Even in the rosiest scenario, Paxlovid won’t be a panacea.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 May 2022
  • Each of these policies may help, but none is a panacea.
    Barry Latzer, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
  • That said, reusables aren’t a panacea for the planet or its people.
    Jessica Defin, Vogue, 22 July 2021
  • Roth acknowledges a code of ethics, on its own, isn't a panacea.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • But no single game can serve as a panacea for what ails the nation.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 8 Feb. 2021
  • This is not a panacea, nor is it intended to stand alone.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2016
  • For the Navajo people, the churro were something of a panacea.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Having a woman in the top job isn’t a panacea for any issue.
    Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 6 June 2024
  • Still, studying the Bible has been no moral panacea for Chattanooga schools.
    G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Even the best desk chair in the world is not a panacea, the physical therapist points out.
    Jamie Gold, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • None of this is a panacea, and the bill doesn’t overhaul the Defense Health Agency that is a big line item.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Of course, the TikTok sobriety space isn’t some kind of panacea.
    Amelia Tait, refinery29.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Petro’s ascent to power is not a panacea for the country’s ills.
    Ivan Briscoe, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2022
  • Adding Udoka isn't anything close to a panacea for the woes ailing the Rockets.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The program hasn’t been a panacea for all working parents.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • No method is a panacea, no choice of form is a guarantee of a worthwhile film.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
  • But this program is not built on the premise that serious games are a panacea.
    Chris Kohler, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2007
  • When asked about the role of the sign, Jaynes-Diming also says that the artifact isn’t a panacea to racial ills.
    Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Aug. 2021
  • But even that wouldn’t be a panacea for the $100 trillion industry.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Experts warn the treatment is not a panacea and should be used with caution.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 11 June 2019
  • Chopra acknowledges that psychedelics are not a panacea.
    David E. Carpenter, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • To be sure, red flag laws are no panacea for mass violence.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 May 2022
  • The swooning Steelers could be a panacea of sorts Sunday.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Even though your intrepid reporter went to all the trouble of adding up 15 teams’ win shares, the draft is no panacea.
    Dallas News, 23 June 2022
  • That doesn’t mean the shots will offer a protective panacea.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Automation at the ports, like anything, isn’t a panacea.
    The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The process is definitely not some panacea that eliminates every mistake made by AI.
    Reece Rogers, WIRED, 14 June 2024

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