nostrum
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In the flesh, the document is an agglomeration of misinformation, platitudes and premasticated nostrums.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2023
Marketers of economic nostrums such as cryptocurrency and gold investments don’t win customers by proclaiming that happy days are here again.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2023
In his plan, the glow of fantasy is fueled by nostalgia for Golden Age nostrums that have no cure-all value for the war that’s actually happening.
From Slate • Dec. 16, 2022
Ms. Gessen, a Russian-American journalist who won the 2017 National Book Award for “The Future Is History,” about the return of totalitarianism in post-Communist Russia, has spent her career challenging prevailing nostrums.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2019
Thereafter, it is mostly Bolt-court—poor blind Miss Williams gone, by this time, and also the sorry physician who had been long a pensioner on him, and whose nostrums he had taken out of charity.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.
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