Meaning of panacaea | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“In a context of financial constraint, faced with the inefficiency of large organizations, the failure of large projects and white elephants, some see⟳ in this sector a panacaea or an alternative development model⟳, the image of the success of the market against the State or the beauty of the small.”

“In fact, the claims made by many early manufacturers went beyond mere comfort; they essentially promised to be panacaeas for all your rear-end afflictions.”

“I find⟳ that while the move⟳ towards global justice is in many ways heartening, we ought not believe⟳ that it is a panacaea.”

“The recapitulation of the developments at Aulis is momentarily interrupted, at the point⟳ of Agamemnon's hopeless decision, to evoke a false picture of security in Zeus, and to underscore the enigma of the universal order⟳, while at the same time holding out such make-believe panacaeas as sophrosyne and the like⟳.”

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