Example sentences for: panacea

How can you use “panacea” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Choice may not be the panacea for all our nation's education ills," he said in a speech on the Senate floor, "but we cannot afford not to take an honest look at whether more options would help kids who today are trapped in the worst schools in our poorest areas."

  • It's a flippant comparison, to be sure, but it's one that illuminates the reasons why gambling has not been an economic panacea for other parts of the country, parts where the New Deal actually had an impact, for example.

  • But as successful as the system-software strategy has been for Microsoft, it isn't a panacea; see IBM's experience with OS/2 and Jobs' own experience with NeXTStep for counterexamples.

  • Native Americans chewed tobacco to treat intestinal symptoms, and in 1560, Jean Nicot de Villemain sent tobacco seeds to the French court, claiming tobacco had medicinal properties and describing it as a panacea for many ailments.

  • But even assuming that the peso holds and that things don't fall apart, there is still a serious lesson in Argentina's current travails--namely, that you can scratch one more supposed economic panacea off your list.


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