Examples of sugar pill in a Sentence
Half the patients were given the medication and the other half received a sugar pill.
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Could a beneficial placebo effect be identified even when a patient was knowingly taking a sugar pill?
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New Atlas, 22 Feb. 2025
However, in studies that compared SAM-e to a placebo (sugar pill), SAM-e wasn't found to be consistently beneficial.22
SAM-e is a relatively safe supplement.
—Ashley Wong, Health, 2 Jan. 2025
In a cynical, despairing world, a sugar pill that calls itself a sugar pill might be the sweetest thing around.
—Tom Vanderbilt, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
The process was similar to a clinical trial for a new drug, in which some patients are randomly assigned the new drug and others are assigned an older drug or a sugar pill.
—Time, 18 Aug. 2023
In drug trials, a look-alike sugar pill and a test drug are randomly assigned to participants, but there’s no equivalent of a sugar pill for enrichment activities.
—Han Yu, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
In this context, my door-locking was less practical than ritual, one that brought me some inchoate sense of safety and wellbeing, like a psychic sugar pill.
—Hazlitt, 5 Apr. 2023
Neither was a daily sugar pill.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
For example, a sugar pill or an injection of saline solution may be used instead of a dose of the drug.
—Zoe McLaren, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2020
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New Atlas, 22 Feb. 2025
However, in studies that compared SAM-e to a placebo (sugar pill), SAM-e wasn't found to be consistently beneficial.22
SAM-e is a relatively safe supplement.
—Ashley Wong, Health, 2 Jan. 2025
In a cynical, despairing world, a sugar pill that calls itself a sugar pill might be the sweetest thing around.
—Tom Vanderbilt, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
The process was similar to a clinical trial for a new drug, in which some patients are randomly assigned the new drug and others are assigned an older drug or a sugar pill.
—Time, 18 Aug. 2023
In drug trials, a look-alike sugar pill and a test drug are randomly assigned to participants, but there’s no equivalent of a sugar pill for enrichment activities.
—Han Yu, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
In this context, my door-locking was less practical than ritual, one that brought me some inchoate sense of safety and wellbeing, like a psychic sugar pill.
—Hazlitt, 5 Apr. 2023
Neither was a daily sugar pill.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
For example, a sugar pill or an injection of saline solution may be used instead of a dose of the drug.
—Zoe McLaren, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2020
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“Sugar pill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sugar%20pill. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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