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noun

panacea

a solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases

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Six example sentences with panacea, each labelled with its topic.

  • Antibiotics are not a panacea, and prescribing them for every sore throat breeds resistance without helping the patient.

    Medicine

  • Founders treat a new hire as a panacea, expecting one person to fix sales, culture, and the broken roadmap.

    Startups

  • Councillors presented the parking levy as a panacea for congestion, noise, air quality, and the failing bus routes.

    Politics

  • Lower interest rates are no panacea; cheap credit cannot build houses where the land is not for sale.

    Economics

  • Managers treated the new software as a panacea, and were surprised when the old arguments moved into its comment fields.

    Technology

  • No single exercise is a panacea, and the runners who only ever run tend to break down first.

    Fitness

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