as in drug
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
some pharmaceuticals can be quite risky unless taken correctly
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Recent Examples of pharmaceutical
Those tactics were historically associated with the fossil fuel, pharmaceutical and tobacco industries, but tech companies have innovated on and rejuvenated the lobbying form.
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
Trump’s Commerce Department has so far this year launched Section 232 investigations into copper, lumber, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, trucks, jet engines, polysilicon, drones and wind turbines.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
India now exports more iPhones to the American market than China does, and its mammoth pharmaceutical industry provides 40 percent of America’s generic drugs.
—Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
The commission’s first report this May suggested a broad range of factors driving chronic disease in the US, including ultraprocessed foods, environmental exposures, and overprescription of pharmaceuticals like antidepressants.
—Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
Trump’s Commerce Department has so far this year launched Section 232 investigations into copper, lumber, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, trucks, jet engines, polysilicon, drones and wind turbines.
—Brian Bennett, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
India now exports more iPhones to the American market than China does, and its mammoth pharmaceutical industry provides 40 percent of America’s generic drugs.
—Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
The commission’s first report this May suggested a broad range of factors driving chronic disease in the US, including ultraprocessed foods, environmental exposures, and overprescription of pharmaceuticals like antidepressants.
—Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pharmaceutical
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Petro has scaled back efforts to target drug supply, instead trying to solve the issue through social programs.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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The researchers tested their two-part drug on mice and zebrafish engineered to produce β-glucuronidase, and found that the drug was activated almost exclusively in tumors, sparing healthy tissue and organs.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Sep. 2025
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Many parents from my practice share a common concern about their children taking asthma medications with steroids.—
Rhonda Conner-Warren,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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Some experts believe that certain medications — a category called fall risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) — could be to blame.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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When Best of Beauty launched in 1996, skin care was something best kept hidden behind your medicine cabinet.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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At the time, society considered whiskey as a suitable medicine for cancer, typhoid, and diphtheria among other illnesses.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
16 Sep. 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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“Pharmaceutical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pharmaceutical. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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