sugar pill
Example Sentences
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The placebo may be an injectable saline solution, or water, or a sugar pill.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Often, a placebo is a sugar pill that is matched in size and color to the experimental medication but does not deliver any biologically active agents.
From Slate ● May 10, 2018
This is set up as a one-tailed test with the claim in the alternative hypothesis that the medicine will produce more endorphins than the sugar pill.
From Textbooks ● Nov. 29, 2017
It’s now a doctor’s prescription for every societal ill, the “take two aspirin and call me in the morning” of compassion — the sugar pill, maybe.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016
And in the next story you shall hear how the doctor cured the donkey with a little sugar pill.
From Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox by David Cory
