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 But researchers caution that ultra-high-resolution modeling is not a panacea. Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025 Times have changed, and squirreling away cap space is no longer a panacea, something the Heat essentially acknowledged in changing course over the past year. Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025 Ice water facials are great additions to your skin care but shouldn't be seen as a panacea for your skin health. Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 20 Aug. 2025 As the Japanese experience has shown, financial repression would offer no panacea to the United States. Kenneth S. Rogoff, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for panacea
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Noun
  • Otherwise, don't forget the power of basic pain relief remedies.
    Andee Tagle, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Some people consider dark chocolate a natural remedy for period cramps and pain.
    Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Health, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Ellie is immune to infection, Joel's job is to escort her to Salt Lake City to meet a group called the Fireflies in order to potentially create a cure.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
    Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The oil-free elixir blends l-ascorbic acid, silymarin, ferulic acid, and salicylic acid to protect against free radical damage, stave off excess oil production, and clarify pores.
    Akili King, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Made with 83 ingredients, think of it as part greens powder, part gut-health-supporting drink, and part adaptogenic elixir.
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Yes, Baltimore’s defense is wretched, so don’t count on this being a cure-all, exactly.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
  • At its core, a rate cut is a tool, not a cure-all.
    Diane Tomb, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But Wolff’s work and influence, alongside a simultaneous rise in the fields of psychology and psychosomatic medicine, helped to disperse those nostrums into the wider culture—and into the prevailing paradigm within which other headache scientists and clinicians toiled.
    Tom Zeller Jr. July 30, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
  • His personal integrity conflicts with liberal nostrums, resulting in Fish and Poinsettia’s bizarre repulsion-attraction rapport.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025

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“Panacea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panacea. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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