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
Their goal is to then access a magic elixir that’ll revive the lotus and extend their lives.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
In the wintertime, try their signature hot cocoa or chocolate elixir.
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
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
Trump agenda bill might not be the elixir Dems imagined.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 10 July 2025
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
In the wintertime, try their signature hot cocoa or chocolate elixir.
—Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
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
Trump agenda bill might not be the elixir Dems imagined.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elixir
Noun
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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
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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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There is no cure or treatment for the disease beyond treatment of symptoms.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
12 Sep. 2025
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But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure.—
Emily Trainham,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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The best smart telescopes offer a powerful remedy to this problem in the form of advanced image stacking and real-time processing to filter out artificial light interference and reveal detail in objects that would be difficult to observe with the naked eye or traditional optics.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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As the Harvard Business Review (HBR) explains, learning is a remedy for the fear of failure.—
Jasmine Browley,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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According to Pliny the Elder, a first-century naturalist, the plant was a cure-all and had the power to alleviate a wide variety of health concerns.—
Demir Alp,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Aug. 2025
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But magnesium is not a cure-all, Pasquariello cautioned.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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“Elixir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elixir. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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