as in panacea
something that cures all ills or problems
warned that casino gambling would not be an elixir for all of the region's economic woes
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Recent Examples of elixir
The same elixir of plummeting employment and rising healthcare costs has also plagued the directors, though not to the same degree.
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Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
9 June 2026
If confidence, dogmatic beliefs, and undeniable talent were elixirs of life, Frank Lloyd Wright would be alive today, celebrating what would have been his 159th birthday.
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Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
8 June 2026
After a long flight, this is the place to catch a break by the fireplace with an herbal elixir and a good rubdown or a dip in one of the whirlpools.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Wally, a doctor, wants to experiment with Mother and use her golden blood to help humanity, arguing that the youthful elixir surely contains a multitude of medical cures.
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
9 June 2026
If confidence, dogmatic beliefs, and undeniable talent were elixirs of life, Frank Lloyd Wright would be alive today, celebrating what would have been his 159th birthday.
—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
8 June 2026
After a long flight, this is the place to catch a break by the fireplace with an herbal elixir and a good rubdown or a dip in one of the whirlpools.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Wally, a doctor, wants to experiment with Mother and use her golden blood to help humanity, arguing that the youthful elixir surely contains a multitude of medical cures.
—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elixir
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Cons to Using Orange Peels While often touted as a panacea around the garden, orange peels have some downsides.
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At the same time, the research team was clear that its findings are not a panacea — being diagnosed with a specific illness is often only an early step toward finding and then pursuing treatment options — and that LLMs are not meant to be used by consumers to treat or diagnose diseases.
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Many families have their own remedies for treating these pesky bites—but as the old saying goes, prevention is better than the cure.
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After training as a doctor and specializing in gastroenterology, Voegtlin had devoted most of his career to trying to find a cure for alcoholism.
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The defense team also pointed to another Utah criminal case in which prosecutors were accused of contempt and suggested that one potential remedy would be to bar the state from seeking the death penalty.
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The main remedy Robinson’s defense suggested if prosecutors were held in contempt was for the death penalty to be removed as a possible punishment, should Robinson be convicted.
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Anderson found the origins of present fads in the fervent nostrums of the past.
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Because of the false but persistent and powerfully seductive nostrum that reducing the value of a country’s currency will stimulate its economy by making its exports cheaper and its imports more expensive.
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Where InsurTech startups were once pitched as plug-and-play cure-alls, the talk now is of narrower tools trained on a single bottleneck, with the carrier keeping hold of the judgment.
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The raves on TikTok won’t tell you this because, according to many of these videos, sardines are a skincare cure-all.
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“Elixir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elixir. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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