as in silver bullet
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Summary There is no magic bullet for enhancing athletic performance or altering body composition, and keto gummies are no exception.
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Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 18 Mar. 2025
Making The Fractional Model Work For all its benefits, the fractional model is not a magic bullet.
—Ryan Kunkel, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
How Brexit Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs: Britain’s decision to leave the E.U. in 2016 was sold to voters as a magic bullet that would revitalize the country’s economy.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
But beef tallow is far from a magic bullet for health and is not without its drawbacks.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
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Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 18 Mar. 2025
Making The Fractional Model Work For all its benefits, the fractional model is not a magic bullet.
—Ryan Kunkel, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
How Brexit Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs: Britain’s decision to leave the E.U. in 2016 was sold to voters as a magic bullet that would revitalize the country’s economy.
—Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
But beef tallow is far from a magic bullet for health and is not without its drawbacks.
—Perri Ormont Blumberg, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for magic bullet
silver bullet
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But some people want a silver bullet with all the benefit without much effort.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2025
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And yet, despite over a century of protectionist sentiment and high tariff policies, accompanied by seemingly real, tangible economic results, many Americans realized that the tariff was not the silver bullet Carey and other protectionists had promised.—
Made by History,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Magic bullet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/magic%20bullet. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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