as in panacea
something that cures all ills or problems
raising a young person's self-esteem is not the cure-all that some people think
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Recent Examples of cure-all
That maxim certainly applies to the push by Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union leadership to look to the tax increment financing program as a cure-all for their $734 million budget shortfall.
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Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Fertilizer isn’t a cure-all for lawn disease; on the contrary, fertilizer can amplify the problem.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2025
But less consumption in itself won’t be a cure-all.
—Elizabeth Cline, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
Doctors prescribe it to ease symptoms of testosterone deficiency — among them weight gain, muscle loss and depression — but dubious clinics also sell the therapy as a cure-all for a crisis of masculinity.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025
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Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
Fertilizer isn’t a cure-all for lawn disease; on the contrary, fertilizer can amplify the problem.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2025
But less consumption in itself won’t be a cure-all.
—Elizabeth Cline, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
Doctors prescribe it to ease symptoms of testosterone deficiency — among them weight gain, muscle loss and depression — but dubious clinics also sell the therapy as a cure-all for a crisis of masculinity.
—The New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cure-all
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Technology in the provision of educational instruction is not a panacea or substitute for live presentation.—
Blake D. Morant,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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As the Japanese experience has shown, financial repression would offer no panacea to the United States.—
Kenneth S. Rogoff,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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Creating majority-Black districts in the South has been a longstanding remedy to the historic dispersal of minority populations across multiple districts to dilute their voting power.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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The big tech giant won’t be required to sell its Chrome browser — one of the remedies originally requested by the Biden-era Department of Justice.—
Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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While far from a cure, the study points to a new path that combines advanced manufacturing, stem cell science, and regenerative medicine.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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Plenty of brands already offer or are transitioning to TPO-free formulas that contain different photoinitiators (a chemical that makes gel polishes cure under a lamp instead of air-drying like regular polish) such as TPO-L, BAPO, or other resin initiators.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
5 Sep. 2025
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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
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While the market brims with neon nootropics and mushroom elixirs, Dekáf remains stubbornly grounded.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
28 Aug. 2025
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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
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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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“Cure-all.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cure-all. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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