wonder drug

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Recent Examples of wonder drug Sometimes dubbed wonder drugs, the injection-format medicines, which include major brand names like Ozempic and Wegovy can assist in major weight loss. Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025 There’s a little bit of business about how Zora and her team will be harvesting blood from the biggest dinos of land, sea, and sky in order to create a wonder drug that will cure heart disease … and isn’t heart disease how her mother died? Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 July 2025 This class of treatment — monoclonal antibodies, special artificial proteins that carry instructions to the body’s immune system — have the potential to be a genuine all-in-one allergy wonder drug. Dylan Scott, Vox, 15 Apr. 2025 Photo: David Yellen The first great wonder drug was insulin, the blood-sugar-regulating hormone that was isolated in Canada nearly a century ago. IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2015 See All Example Sentences for wonder drug
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Noun
  • And people with debilitating conditions aren’t necessarily expecting a miracle drug, said the anonymous Reddit user.
    Sara Talpos — Undark, STAT, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The trail leads to powerful tech billionaire Byron Forst (Ashton Kutcher), creator of an injectable miracle drug called The Beauty.
    Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The government also stopped collecting and reporting crucial survey findings on transgender students — data that have shown higher rates of depression, drug use, bullying and other problems.
    Mike Stobbe, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Beer that turned green − possibly a chemical reaction with the drugs Dominque Pelicot had been slipping into her drinks and food to render her unconscious for the rapes.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Guthrie was last seen on January 31 and is believed to have been abducted from her secluded home without her phone or critical medications.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • There has been no proof of life provided for the 84-year-old, and family has expressed concern about her health because she was kidnapped without her medication.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The bill also gives the legal right to anyone who is harmed by such material to seek a remedy and bring an action against the entity that distributed the material.
    Mohamed Suliman, Boston Herald, 16 Feb. 2026
  • In particular, the Justice Department is pressing for stiffer remedies in a verdict against Google over an alleged advertising monopoly.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • There are treatments but no cure, the neurologist will tell you.
    Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Maybe the speed of the infection had something to do with the efficacy of the cure?
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2026

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“Wonder drug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wonder%20drug. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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