as in remedy
something that cures all ills or problems he seems to prescribe fluids and rest as a catholicon for everything

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Noun
  • The silly vocal remedy comes just 10 days after the singer released her EP, Nashville Canyon, Pt.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
  • These remedies would block the Nevada Gaming Control Board from prohibiting Kalshi from offering event contracts for trading.
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Noun
  • 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.
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Noun
  • If the rule of law is indeed in danger due to the public’s lack of education, then more continual education becomes the panacea.
    Blake D. Morant, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Despite the health risks of having a higher weight, losing weight is far from a panacea.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the second act of the Broadway musical, Elphaba fakes her death when a mob of Oz citizens chase Elphaba and Dorothy throws a bucket of water on her, melting her and leaving only her hat and the bottle of green elixir that belonged to her mother.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 28 Mar. 2025
  • And through the magic elixir of bonding, Taylor soon had hundreds of millions of dollars to spend.
    Scott Herhold, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There’s no cure for allergic asthma, but medications and lifestyle changes can help control symptoms.
    Susan Russell, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Season 1 chronicled Joel and Ellie’s perilous journey across a country ravaged by a cordyceps pandemic to a hospital run by a militia group, where Ellie’s unique immunity to the infection could be used to create a cure.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 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
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“Catholicon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/catholicon. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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