as in remedy
something that cures all ills or problems he seems to prescribe fluids and rest as a catholicon for everything

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Noun
  • Several audience members questioned TxDOT’s belief in highway expansion as the region’s ideal congestion remedy.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Google exiting the open internet could be the remedy for the antitrust ruling and make business sense, The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green told Axios' Sara Fischer during an event on Monday.
    Kerry Flynn, Axios, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The alternative, the panacea for that desperation if there is one, is solidarity.
    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
Noun
  • My obsession with the savory, comforting elixir born from braising greens just shy of an eternity began not with my grandmother, but with one of my best friends, Dana Stinson.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
  • In 2017, fragments of wine jars discovered South of Tbilisi confirmed what Georgians had always known: that their relationship with the elixir has stretched back at least 8,000 years.
    Kurt Johnson, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Moving beyond medicine, the series examines ethical questions about our healthcare system and why specific treatments and cures are withheld unless purchased.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The Federation Council, no longer claiming the moral high ground over Section 31, later decided to withhold the cure.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • L’Orvietan and its imitators had their roots in a more antique antidote called theriac.
    Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But with its long list of as many as 80 ingredients and high status, theriac was expensive and exclusive.
    Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
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“Catholicon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catholicon. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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