as in remedy
something that cures all ills or problems a woman who seems to believe that chicken soup is a panacea for nearly everything

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Recent Examples of panacea Identifying the proper policy panacea to this challenge dominates debates at the local and state levels. Jamie Kennedy, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2025 At some point in this goop-y era, mushrooms went from pizza topping and psychedelic trips to wellness panacea. Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 6 June 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for panacea
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Noun
  • Letters describing the saftey risk are to be sent Aug. 25 and follow up letters are to be sent when a remedy is available.
    James Powel, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Sense offers numerous services rooted in natural health remedies derived from the islands’ African and Indigenous traditions, incorporating native roots, leaves, and weeds for wellness.
    Essence, Essence, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In the series, which has now garnered hundreds of thousands of likes on the platform, Kaitlin shares information about her daughter’s health status, information about the disease and updates in the national search for a cure.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • There is no cure for chikungunya, and treatment depends on the management of symptoms.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Sol de Janeiro Beija Flor Elasti-Body Oil Best for: Improving elasticity and softness This fast-absorbing elixir includes vegan collagen and cacay oil to support skin elasticity and bounce.
    Corein Carter, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • These are unusual elixirs, often aged in wooden barrels and transformed by the skillful application of wild yeasts and bacteria.
    Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2025
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  • That maxim certainly applies to the push by Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union leadership to look to the tax increment financing program as a cure-all for their $734 million budget shortfall.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The Clinic-Carry On kit is a cure-all travel kit that includes essentials like lipid-repair moisturizers in compact sizes tailored for air travel and climate changes.
    Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
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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
  • 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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“Panacea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panacea. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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