How to Use wonder drug in a Sentence
wonder drug
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Trust me anyone who was fat last year and is now skinny is on the wonder drug.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
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All came to his online forum in search of the latest wonder drug.
—Michael Powell, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
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Caffeine is a wonder drug; one that many people can’t start the day without.
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2013
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And every few years, a wonder drug comes along that seems to fit the definition.
—Thomas Goetz, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
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But the French soon grew disillusioned with their wonder drug.
—The Conversation, 13 July 2022
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Aspirin The world's wonder drug may be able to ease everything from headaches to heart attacks.
—Amanda Gardner, Health, 6 Mar. 2023
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So many patients want a wonder drug that works wonders (and boy, would pharma companies like to sell it to us).
—Thomas Goetz, STAT, 8 Jan. 2026
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One doctor talks another into field-testing their new wonder drug, as the first pregnant man.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
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Still, Bode warns that people need to be circumspect about chasing human milk as a wonder drug.
—Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 29 Mar. 2024
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Then, in 2021, ivermectin became the wonder drug of choice for some anti-vaxxers.
—Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2022
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Now comes nicotine, perhaps the most unlikely wonder drug ever to be reviled.
—Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2014
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Aspirin is a wonder drug that has been around for thousands of years naturally and in its current form for a century.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
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Statins have been widely described as wonder drugs, lowering the risk of major heart events such as heart attack or stroke by about 25%.
—Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
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Marijuana has long been lauded as a wonder drug for treating nausea and vomiting.
—Molly Sullivan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
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At the time interferon was thought of as something of a wonder drug that could be used as an anti-viral and for fighting various cancers.
—Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 14 Dec. 2017
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But this doesn’t mean the CMPV injections are a cancer wonder drug.
—Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020
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Nonetheless, researchers have recently found that lithium could be something close to a psychiatric wonder drug.
—Paul Raeburn, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2010
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Ivermectin is an over 30-year-old wonder drug that treats life- and sight-threatening parasitic infections.
—Jeffrey R. Aeschlimann, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2021
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Tylenol, considered by many to be a wonder drug, has been dominating the over-the-counter pain reliever market since the mid-70s.
—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
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In the past, some doctors regarded aspirin as something of a wonder drug, capable of protecting healthy patients against a future heart attack or stroke.
—Emily Baumgaertner, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
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It is advertised on TV as a wonder drug to reduce the A1C count for diabetics.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
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Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke email inboxes.
—John Licato, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2023
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Microbubble for drug delivery - First place innovation One of the problems with all the wonder drugs science comes up with is getting them where the need to go.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2018
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The total cost, including the addiction-stopping wonder drug buprenorphine, is estimated at $6 million for two years.
—Matier & Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2018
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After the deprivations of the second world war, the new wonder drugs were welcomed by farmers, who could sell bigger birds much more cheaply to consumers hungry for affordable protein.
—The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
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Not surprisingly the media were extremely excited about this new wonder drug, but Florey and his colleagues were rather shy of publicity.
—Mark Lorch, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2015
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Today, some have swung in the other direction, setting their sights on marijuana as a wonder drug with few downsides, even as rates of marijuana addiction are growing.
—Angela Chen, The Verge, 28 July 2018
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Print Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke email inboxes.
—John Licato, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2023
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The most important of these imports was tobacco, which many Europeans considered a wonder drug capable of curing a wide range of human ailments.
—Peter C. Mancall, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
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As Fentanyl Awareness Day arrived last week, the public got a fresh look at the extremes — lives lost to overdoses and lives saved by the wonder drug Naloxone.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
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