as in remedy
something that cures all ills or problems
a woman who seems to believe that chicken soup is a panacea for nearly everything
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Recent Examples of panacea
Ultimately, the manifesto is a pivotal framework for industrial safety but not a panacea.
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Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Trying to make up some revenue, Trump has stepped outside GOP orthodoxy, touting tariffs as a budgetary panacea.
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 19 Jan. 2025
Of course, none of these fitness tips on their own is a workout panacea that’ll transform your routine.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
Tariffs are neither a panacea nor necessarily injurious.
—Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
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Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Trying to make up some revenue, Trump has stepped outside GOP orthodoxy, touting tariffs as a budgetary panacea.
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 19 Jan. 2025
Of course, none of these fitness tips on their own is a workout panacea that’ll transform your routine.
—Christa Sgobba, SELF, 7 Jan. 2025
Tariffs are neither a panacea nor necessarily injurious.
—Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for panacea
Noun
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Apple cider vinegar is an old remedy that contains acetic acid and other health-promoting compounds.—
Yvelette Stines,
Verywell Health,
18 Mar. 2025
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Capital One and Discover are rebounding from Monday’s decline as investors weigh the possibility of remedies if, in fact, the Department of Justice tries to block the merger.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2025
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Join 41 others in the comments View Comments If so, the bar for buying into a cure for a new condition should be raised.—
Andrea Kane,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2025
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For billions of people, TB is already a nightmare disease, both because the bacterium is unusually powerful and because world leaders have done a poor job of distributing cures.—
John Green,
The Atlantic,
15 Mar. 2025
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Some want a mind-expanding elixir, others a mellow seltzer.—
Javier Hasse,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Adding Nichushkin was either the perfect elixir, great timing teaming up with them on the upswing, or a little of both.—
Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
27 Feb. 2025
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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
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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.—
Ken Rosenthal,
The Athletic,
10 Mar. 2025
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And Trump’s notable executive orders on affirmative action, DEI, gender ideology, and paper straws fit into the MAGA coalition paradigm of uprooting politically correct, net-zero nostrums that Biden and Harris embedded in government.—
Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
22 Feb. 2025
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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
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“Panacea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panacea. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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