How to Use pharma in a Sentence

pharma

noun

• Three big deals kicked off the week — two in pharma, one in finance.
  — Dana Pardini, Bloomberg.com, 22 Jan. 2018
• Well, Monday was a day for the pharma team to chalk up a win.
  — Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017
• In the battle over high drug prices, big pharma is starting to strike the right note.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2017
• At the same time, more than half the world’s large pharma companies are based here.
  — David A. Ricks, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
• There’s a lot of med-device in this town, but not a lot of pharma-type stuff, not a lot of biotech.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
• Big pharma could pay for this with a percentage of their huge profits.
  — Time, 22 Feb. 2018
• Here's how the outbreak has led to a rally in certain pharma and biotech stocks.
  — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 11 May 2026
• Midsized and biggish bio-pharma firms, for instance, have done far better than the very largest ones.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• The pharma giant fell 3% on mixed third-quarter results.
  — Sarah Min, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025
• Expect that point to be rammed home in the future when governments again turn their wrath on big pharma over high prices.
  — The Economist, 6 June 2020
• Trust us, every pharma company has already thought of this one and has been working on it.
  — Zuzu Snyder, Marie Claire, 10 Oct. 2019
• Even so, the vote prompted speculation that a pharma price deal might be within reach.
  — Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News, 25 Sep. 2017
• Big pharma is still splurging on R&D but not making out like a bandit.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Other pharma stocks rallied on this news as investors viewed it as a potential blueprint for more deals.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
• Dopesick takes a look at America's opioid crisis through the lens of addicts and big pharma.
  — Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2022
• These aren’t cartel-like insurers or big pharma names whose product prices the government may cap.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Bollyky ventured that the WHO may have lacked the money or clout to take on big pharma.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
• Eli Lilly’s deal man Jake van Naarden is very, very busy, so what does that mean for biotech and pharma?
  — Elaine Chen, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
• The fact that big pharma players have already taken an interest doesn’t mean that a vaccine will arrive any faster.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 4 Mar. 2020
• Nisen is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering biotech, pharma and health care.
  — Max Nisen, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• For nearly six decades, the burden of conducting this research has mostly fallen on big pharma.
  — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz, 28 Aug. 2020
• However, a couple years later, the whole venture got shut down by that large pharma acquirer.
  — Diana Tsai, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Brett initially covered bioethics for the Pro team and more recently, handled the pharma beat.
  — Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
• This is stuff that is already FDA approved, made by pharma companies.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2017
• The state, which leads the country in opioid deaths, is suing five pharma companies because of the epidemic.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• The sector, especially large pharma, remains healthy and tends to act as a safe haven during market pullbacks.
  — Jay Woods, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2026
• Max Nisen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, pharma and health care.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• The need-to-know this morning There are pharma earnings, and then there are Eli Lilly earnings.
  — Elaine Chen, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
• Who in America book right next to the better-than-average pharma sales guy from Toledo.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Cleary’s parents problems predated the meteoric rise of Purdue in the realm of big pharma.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 June 2018