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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There were fewer adverse events in the turmeric extract group than the placebo group.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
• Those receiving the active gel had about the same rate of heart attack and stroke as those receiving the placebo, the study found.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• In one study, healthy volunteers were given 600mg of CBD or a placebo.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 May 2022
• Alzheimer’s compared with those on a placebo after 18 months.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 6 Oct. 2022
• And some of those in the trial may be randomized to only receive a placebo.
  — Andrew Williams, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
• About 17% of the Leqembi group experienced brain bleeds, compared with 9% in the placebo group.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023
• People either took a weekly injection of semaglutide or a placebo for 68 weeks.
  — Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024
• What’s more, twice as many people in the group that got the active treatment reported remission of their depressive symptoms compared with people in the placebo group: 45% vs. 22%.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024