as in panaceas
something that cures all ills or problems
a quack nostrum for cancer of all types
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Even the most bullish technologists acknowledge that there are no panaceas and that models come with tradeoffs and limits.
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For his part, Sherman, a long-time champion of wriggling remedies, cheered the clearance as a step forward for MDT generally.
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Giamusso, the bureau spokesperson, denied that these are reasons a person in prison would have their remedies rejected.
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The Roman writers Celsus and Pliny the Elder attest to these beliefs; people lined up to avail themselves of bodily elixirs.
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If confidence, dogmatic beliefs, and undeniable talent were elixirs of life, Frank Lloyd Wright would be alive today, celebrating what would have been his 159th birthday.
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Where InsurTech startups were once pitched as plug-and-play cure-alls, the talk now is of narrower tools trained on a single bottleneck, with the carrier keeping hold of the judgment.
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“Nostrums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nostrums. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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