as in panacea
something that cures all ills or problems
raising a young person's self-esteem is not the cure-all that some people think
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Recent Examples of cure-all
Signing free-agent starters in March, meanwhile, is not necessarily a cure-all, as demonstrated last season by the difficulties of two pitchers who reached such agreements — Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery.
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Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 10 Mar. 2025
Overall, though, the scientific consensus seems pretty clear on one point: While zinc definitely isn’t a cold cure-all, getting an adequate amount of it simply helps your immune system function at its best—an important consideration when bugs are going around.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 10 Mar. 2025
The criminal system is no longer held up as the cure-all that restorative justice often is.
—Sarah Lustbader, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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—USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
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Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 10 Mar. 2025
Overall, though, the scientific consensus seems pretty clear on one point: While zinc definitely isn’t a cold cure-all, getting an adequate amount of it simply helps your immune system function at its best—an important consideration when bugs are going around.
—Caroline Tien, SELF, 10 Mar. 2025
The criminal system is no longer held up as the cure-all that restorative justice often is.
—Sarah Lustbader, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
Read the full Leo Daily Horoscope Virgo (August 23 - September 22)
Looking for a cure-all?
—USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cure-all
Noun
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Despite the health risks of having a higher weight, losing weight is far from a panacea.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
26 Mar. 2025
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Here again the promise of technology was seen as a panacea.—
Dina Kraft,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The silly vocal remedy comes just 10 days after the singer released her EP, Nashville Canyon, Pt.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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These remedies would block the Nevada Gaming Control Board from prohibiting Kalshi from offering event contracts for trading.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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As the Mayo Clinic explains, there is no cure, but surgery and treatments can help symptoms.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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So long as the nation’s top public-health official is propping up purported miracle cures, families in West Texas will be encouraged to believe that not vaccinating their children is a responsible choice.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In the second act of the Broadway musical, Elphaba fakes her death when a mob of Oz citizens chase Elphaba and Dorothy throws a bucket of water on her, melting her and leaving only her hat and the bottle of green elixir that belonged to her mother.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
28 Mar. 2025
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And through the magic elixir of bonding, Taylor soon had hundreds of millions of dollars to spend.—
Scott Herhold,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2025
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Books, Arts & Manners Books A Hero’s Bargain Brian Stewart In an age when heroism is often seen as a relic of a bygone era, the life and death of Alexei Navalny stands as a challenge and a rebuke to progressive nostrums of the day.—
Caroline Downey,
National Review,
27 Mar. 2025
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Eight years later, Democrats have devolved into nostrums about appealing to the middle class, ditching academic language, and finding a uniting message.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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