as in panacea
something that cures all ills or problems
a quack nostrum for cancer of all types
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Recent Examples of nostrum
This is a departure from the standard time-travel nostrum that any change to the past runs the danger of making things immeasurably worse in the future.
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Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
Worthless nostrums such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been promoted as COVID treatments based on transparently bogus evidence.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
This is a guy who has promoted nostrums that science has shown to be utterly useless against COVID, such as the anti-parasitic ivermectin and the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Most central and eastern European countries had already succumbed to authoritarianism or different variations of fascism, and the Great Depression suggested that the activist solutions implemented by both extremes were better than the feeble nostrums liberalism could offer.
—Shlomo Avineri, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2012
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Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
Worthless nostrums such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been promoted as COVID treatments based on transparently bogus evidence.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
This is a guy who has promoted nostrums that science has shown to be utterly useless against COVID, such as the anti-parasitic ivermectin and the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Most central and eastern European countries had already succumbed to authoritarianism or different variations of fascism, and the Great Depression suggested that the activist solutions implemented by both extremes were better than the feeble nostrums liberalism could offer.
—Shlomo Avineri, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nostrum
Noun
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Trying to make up some revenue, Trump has stepped outside GOP orthodoxy, touting tariffs as a budgetary panacea.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
19 Jan. 2025
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Of course, none of these fitness tips on their own is a workout panacea that’ll transform your routine.—
Christa Sgobba,
SELF,
7 Jan. 2025
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My obsession with the savory, comforting elixir born from braising greens just shy of an eternity began not with my grandmother, but with one of my best friends, Dana Stinson.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
29 Dec. 2024
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In 2017, fragments of wine jars discovered South of Tbilisi confirmed what Georgians had always known: that their relationship with the elixir has stretched back at least 8,000 years.—
Kurt Johnson,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Dec. 2024
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It is commonly used as a natural remedy for nausea and stomach upset.3 1.—
Lauren O'Connor, MS,
Health,
10 Feb. 2025
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While the state Assembly derailed that initial plan, forfeiting the grant, the push for a practical remedy to gridlock never died.—
DJ Gribbin,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2025
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Apple Cider Vinegar, which contrasts Gibson with two genuinely ill young women in her orbit who are searching for miracle cancer cures, comes at the crest of the latest wave of scam content.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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All the same, understanding a Morandi still-life is a pesky illusion that may overtake you, the cure for which is looking again, harder.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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L’Orvietan and its imitators had their roots in a more antique antidote called theriac.—
Elizabeth Heath,
Discover Magazine,
15 Feb. 2023
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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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Key Takeaway Edutainment isn’t a cure-all the problem of kids being bored at school—that’s inevitable.—
Fiona Tapp,
Parents,
3 Feb. 2025
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Findings from nutrition research is rarely clear-cut because diet is just one of many behaviors and lifestyle factors affecting health, but the simplicity of using food and supplements as a cure-all is especially seductive.—
Aimee Pugh Bernard,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Nostrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nostrum. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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