as in panacea
something that cures all ills or problems
a quack nostrum for cancer of all types
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Recent Examples of nostrum
His personal integrity conflicts with liberal nostrums, resulting in Fish and Poinsettia’s bizarre repulsion-attraction rapport.
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Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
Kennedy has promoted almost useless nostrums against measles, such as Vitamin A, while describing vaccination as a personal choice.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
Eight years later, Democrats have devolved into nostrums about appealing to the middle class, ditching academic language, and finding a uniting message.
—Alexander Nazaryan, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
Population trends today should raise serious questions about all the old nostrums that humans are somehow hard-wired to replace themselves to continue the species.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 25 June 2025
Kennedy has promoted almost useless nostrums against measles, such as Vitamin A, while describing vaccination as a personal choice.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
Eight years later, Democrats have devolved into nostrums about appealing to the middle class, ditching academic language, and finding a uniting message.
—Alexander Nazaryan, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
Population trends today should raise serious questions about all the old nostrums that humans are somehow hard-wired to replace themselves to continue the species.
—Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nostrum
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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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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
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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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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
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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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But with its long list of as many as 80 ingredients and high status, theriac was expensive and exclusive.—
Elizabeth Heath,
Discover Magazine,
15 Feb. 2023
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Zinc lozenges suddenly became the theriac to cure all ills; masks and hand-sanitizer, the ambergris and zedoary to ward off infection.—
Spencer Strub,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Mar. 2020
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Companies treat new technology as a cure-all.—
Joe Toscano,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Here's why ketamine therapy isn't a cure-all.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Nostrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nostrum. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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