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
Braniff and others are quick to stress the programs overseen by CP3 aren’t a panacea.
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Will Carless, USA Today, 18 June 2025
Their panacea was a rare, breakout night from their offense.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 17 May 2025
But perhaps most important of all, these hybrid approaches will place AI value above AI hype by turning the focus to project outcome rather than treating any one technical approach as a panacea.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Neither of these steps is a panacea for transit’s challenges in a post-pandemic world.
—Matthew Yglesias, Twin Cities, 14 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for panacea
Will Carless, USA Today, 18 June 2025
Their panacea was a rare, breakout night from their offense.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 17 May 2025
But perhaps most important of all, these hybrid approaches will place AI value above AI hype by turning the focus to project outcome rather than treating any one technical approach as a panacea.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Neither of these steps is a panacea for transit’s challenges in a post-pandemic world.
—Matthew Yglesias, Twin Cities, 14 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for panacea
Recent Examples of Synonyms for panacea
Noun
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While his diagnosis of overfull streets is correct, his remedy of higher parking requirements is akin to the patient demanding surgical expansion of his stomach to address his obesity.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 July 2025
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All of these responses misdiagnose the order’s deepest illness and thus prescribe the wrong remedy.—
STACIE E. GODDARD,
Foreign Affairs,
28 July 2025
Noun
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There is no current cure for CTE, and it can only be diagnosed posthumously.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
29 July 2025
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Currently, there's no cure for Huntington's, but certain medications, diet changes, and exercise can temporarily manage symptoms.2 Huntington’s Disease Symptoms The symptoms of Huntington’s disease get progressively worse with time.—
Janelle McSwiggin,
Health,
27 July 2025
Noun
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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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To today's ear, the elixirs, potions and tonics sold at Haag sound like a traveling medicine man’s inventory: Swamp root, Danderine, Sloan’s Liniment, Catarrh Jelly, Wine of Cardue.—
Indianapolis Star,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Fertilizer isn’t a cure-all for lawn disease; on the contrary, fertilizer can amplify the problem.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 July 2025
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But self-help culture tends to treat optimism like a cure-all as if every problem is just a thought pattern waiting to be reversed.—
Ranju Kunwor,
Chicago Tribune,
18 July 2025
Noun
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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
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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 6 Aug. 2025.
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