nostrum

Example Sentences

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Charlatans promoted useless nostrums, diverting precious resources away from research into legitimately promising treatments.

From Los Angeles Times

As I’ve reported, this is a vacuous mantra that plays up the state’s avoidance of conservative nostrums such as deregulations and low taxes, but doesn’t explain why the state has been booming.

From Los Angeles Times

Diets and exercise, the usual nostrums, almost always provide short-term weight loss, at best.

From Seattle Times

Thursday’s pitches included nostrums for prostate enlargement and joint pain and a pill dispenser, not generally a young person’s needs.

From Los Angeles Times

First, that Republican voters aren’t necessarily wedded to ideological nostrums about limited government, and so a politician can succeed in a Republican primary by running, as Trump did, against elements of movement-conservative orthodoxy.

From New York Times