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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Meanwhile, none of the 20 people in the placebo group (who only used the carrier oils) saw these results.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 2 May 2024
• Over the course of five months, half of the participants took daily oral tadalafil, also known by the brand name Cialis, while the other half took a placebo.
  — Akila Muthukumar, STAT, 18 June 2022
• During the first month, the participants’ pain improved in both the placebo and methotrexate groups.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2023
• The supplement users had half the number of errors on this test compared to those taking a placebo.
  — Kristen Fischer, Health, 15 Mar. 2024
• In the treatment group, 79 people completed a year of treatment, as did 87 people in the placebo group.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2024
• That is almost identical to the 6.0% who died while taking placebo.
  — Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
• In a small human trial, adults with moderate stress took either a placebo or tongkat ali for four weeks.
  — Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 9 Oct. 2024
• Those who took the creatine before or after training gained more muscle strength than those who took the placebo.
  — Merve Ceylan, Health, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024