How to Use placebo effect in a Sentence

placebo effect

noun

• But still, five pounds is enough room for some kind of placebo effect.
  — Erik Vance, Slate Magazine, 13 July 2017
• With that said, there’s nothing wrong with the placebo effect.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 7 May 2019
• And the good ol’ placebo effect may dictate a good amount of what happens.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 25 Mar. 2019
• The placebo effect was first discovered in the late 1700s.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Dec. 2022
• Chalk it up to a placebo effect — or maybe this stuff is just that good — but our tester is no longer a skeptic.
  — Allure, 6 Oct. 2017
• Others say that any pain relief is due to the placebo effect.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2019
• And the stronger your anticipation is, the stronger the placebo effect will be.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2021
• For some players, the spray may also have a placebo effect.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2022
• There was no control group, so the improvement could have been due to the placebo effect or, more likely, the passage of time.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 2 Jan. 2010
• Yet every doctor knows the placebo effect is real; the mind can change what’s happening in the body.
  — Mary Hadar, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• The placebo effect is, in fact, arising in studies for Covid-19 vaccines.
  — Erica Smith, STAT, 13 Oct. 2020
• The placebo is real That doesn't mean that the placebo effect isn't happening here.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2023
• Much or all of the encouraging hints seen so far in people may be the result of the placebo effect, skeptics say.
  — Gunjan Sinha, Science | AAAS, 17 Sep. 2020
• On the other hand, the placebo effect presumably doesn’t exist in rats.
  — Scott Douglas, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2020
• While many of the accoutrements of wellness can feel fun to own and use, much of it has been a placebo effect in my experience.
  — Tasnim Ahmed, Allure, 9 Aug. 2018
• Chess students may do better in school because of a placebo effect.
  — Sue Shellenbarger, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2018
• To some, the treatment is considered somewhat of a placebo effect.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2022
• Sometimes there’s nothing to doctor, but the placebo effect of a Band-Aid cannot be overstated.
  — Rachel Walker, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2019
• So the researchers really have no idea how the trained placebo effect is working in humans.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2018
• This stuff, along with crystals and horoscopes, joins a long list of things that have never been proven to have much value beyond a placebo effect.
  — Barry Ritholtz, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• What does this suggest about the value of both art and the placebo effect in supporting our human Frailties?
  — Andrew Ridker, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
• For those desperate to recharge while stuck at home, these Goop-esque promises might at least have a placebo effect.
  — Flora Tsapovsky, Wired, 22 June 2020
• Often these are harmless, and sometimes there’s even a placebo effect.
  — Christine Byrne, Outside Online, 9 Sep. 2019
• But research on the placebo effect suggests that even snake oil can have benefits for those who believe.
  — Markham Heid, Time, 5 Oct. 2017
• There was a placebo effect, however — pain for the women who received the placebo decreased to 73 within two hours and 51 by four hours.
  — Calli McMurray, STAT, 17 Feb. 2023
• Now, some researchers in Germany have figured out a way to harness the placebo effect to increase the impact of a normal drug treatment.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2018
• Dodman describes it as something like the placebo effect.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
• That study might seem to suggest that nothing more than the placebo effect is at work, in which the person expects to experience pain relief and so does.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 Oct. 2022
• Second, the very presence of the substance on the list may invoke a placebo effect regardless of its effectiveness.
  — Jo Morrison and Eric Moore, STAT, 4 Aug. 2024
• Does that suggest in any way that the effects of psychedelics might be substantially—or perhaps entirely—placebo effects?
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024