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
Fertilizer isn’t a cure-all for lawn disease; on the contrary, fertilizer can amplify the problem.
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2025
But self-help culture tends to treat optimism like a cure-all as if every problem is just a thought pattern waiting to be reversed.
—Ranju Kunwor, Chicago Tribune, 18 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
See All Example Sentences for cure-all
Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 July 2025
But self-help culture tends to treat optimism like a cure-all as if every problem is just a thought pattern waiting to be reversed.
—Ranju Kunwor, Chicago Tribune, 18 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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But there’s a problem: RAG isn’t the AI panacea that many organizations have envisioned.—
Alon Goren,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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In a world where shoppers regularly groan about the banality of modern-day shopping, Stitch Fix sought to be the panacea by offering accessible personal stylists that could design and ship outfits specific to a customer’s unique needs and preferences.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
11 Aug. 2025
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While the assets may be offshore, the person who settled the offshore trust may still be in the U.S. and thus subject to the contempt remedy of the U.S. courts to cause those assets to be repatriated (this is what that Impossibility Defense stuff was all about).—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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The remedy is to empower parents with vouchers and force schools to compete.—
Clive Crook,
Twin Cities,
21 Aug. 2025
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There is no cure, but people with Type 2 may be able to manage it with exercise and diet.—
Beth Warren,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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There is no cure for dogs with dementia, but environmental modifications can minimize the complications.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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For political operatives, the crafting of partisan redistricting maps is the miracle elixir that cures party ills and keeps politicians entrenched for generations.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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Only taking an elixir each night can ward off the dreams — if dreamers can resist the siren call of the Dream Realm.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
28 July 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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