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cure-all
[ kyoor-awl ]
cure-all
noun
- something reputed to cure all ailments
Word History and Origins
Origin of cure-all1
Example Sentences
Consuming yagé is believed to be a general cure-all for almost anything: cancer, depression, alcoholism, etc.
It would be such a relief if we had a cultural cure-all for these sources of anger and fury.
Education has long seemed like the uncontroversial cure-all for these sorts of issues.
But Islamic law has not proven to be the cure-all northerners hoped it would be.
As it happens, I know of a cure that comes pretty near being that impossible thing, a "cure-all."
So every day the old doctor and I hunted the cure-all plant among the mountains and valleys of the Blue Ridge.
He knew all about this liberty, equality and fraternity business, from across the Vosges—and he despised the cure-all.
If the new policy has been a farce politically and socially, how much more has it failed as an economic cure-all!
She was not big enough nor small enough to have a patent cure-all solution ready.
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