How to Use panacea in a Sentence

panacea

noun
  • The law will improve the lives of local farmers, but it is no panacea.
  • The advice wasn’t so much a panacea as a flash of hope.
    Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • For all the research, all the grants, all the talk — there’s still no panacea.
    Megan Schrader, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
  • Each of these policies may help, but none is a panacea.
    Barry Latzer, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
  • But no single game can serve as a panacea for what ails the nation.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Even in the rosiest scenario, Paxlovid won’t be a panacea.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 10 May 2022
  • That said, reusables aren’t a panacea for the planet or its people.
    Jessica Defin, Vogue, 22 July 2021
  • This is not a panacea, nor is it intended to stand alone.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2016
  • Chopra acknowledges that psychedelics are not a panacea.
    David E. Carpenter, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • But this program is not built on the premise that serious games are a panacea.
    Chris Kohler, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2007
  • The program hasn’t been a panacea for all working parents.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Experts warn the treatment is not a panacea and should be used with caution.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 11 June 2019
  • Roth acknowledges a code of ethics, on its own, isn't a panacea.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
  • No method is a panacea, no choice of form is a guarantee of a worthwhile film.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2022
  • To be sure, red flag laws are no panacea for mass violence.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 May 2022
  • Nor should any one particular change be hailed a panacea for all that ails the city.
    Cincinnati.com, 19 July 2017
  • That doesn’t mean the shots will offer a protective panacea.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • However, open source is not the panacea to all problems.
    Kevin Xu, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
  • But with any type of technology, body and dash cams are no panacea.
    David Kravets, Ars Technica, 29 July 2017
  • Deregulation, we were told, was the panacea for our ills.
    Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 25 June 2017
  • Hecht said that on a micro level, the policy is a good thing but no panacea.
    NBC News, 29 July 2021
  • Free test giveaways have not been a panacea for testing problems.
    Jaimie Seaton, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Many thought that these unspecialized cells could be a panacea.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 10 Jan. 2017
  • Such cross-border mergers are no panacea, but could work.
    Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • Which is not to say that zero trust is a security panacea.
    Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Analysts say this latest move is progress, but not a panacea.
    Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 12 May 2021
  • But a return to football won’t be a panacea for every player.
    Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Martin also warned against viewing any lock as a panacea.
    Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 12 July 2022
  • Likewise, safe injection sites are not some sort of panacea.
    Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2018
  • But Smyth knows as well as anyone that attending school is not a panacea.
    Emily Deruy, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2016

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