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 That’s because the agency’s duty is to stand in the way of businesses desiring to push unsafe and ineffective nostrums at unwary consumers, and also in the way of a perverse idea that personal freedom includes the freedom to be gulled by charlatans. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 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 Books, Arts & Manners Books A Hero’s Bargain Brian Stewart In an age when heroism is often seen as a relic of a bygone era, the life and death of Alexei Navalny stands as a challenge and a rebuke to progressive nostrums of the day. Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 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 See All Example Sentences for nostrum
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Noun
  • For the last decade or so, technology has been touted as the panacea to this problem.
    Vivek Jetley, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • Everyone wants a panacea for the problems ailing our industry.
    Bill Mechanic, Deadline, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Attention lovers of the hair-of-the-dog elixir: The Bloody Mary Festival is coming to Austin on March 22.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • Trump has long advocated tariffs as an economic elixir.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Sabraw ordered the government last month to renew its contract with Acacia as part of its remedy for violating the settlement.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2025
  • Most sea lice rashes can be treated with at-home remedies.
    Evan Moore July 8, Charlotte Observer, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The expert emphasized, however, that hypnosis is not a standalone cure for problem drinking.
    Shiv Sudhakar, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
  • While minoxidil is not a cure for TE, it has been used off-label for this condition.
    Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • L’Orvietan and its imitators had their roots in a more antique antidote called theriac.
    Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
  • 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
Noun
  • 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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“Nostrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nostrum. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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