How to Use placebo in a Sentence

placebo

noun
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  • About 7,000 of the patients took Nexletol, and the rest took a placebo.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Two thirds of the participants got the peanut patch, while the rest got a placebo patch.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • At the end of the trial, the women who took probiotics lost more weight than those in the placebo arm.
    — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The drug slowed the rate of cognitive decline by 35% compared to a placebo.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 3 May 2023
  • Not being able to test against a placebo makes the study of these drugs much more difficult.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
  • Those on the placebo only lost an average of 3.1% of their body weight.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Half the patients received hookworms for the treatment and half got a placebo.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 31 July 2023
  • The study found that the median time to sustained recovery was 11 days in the ivermectin group and 11 days in the placebo group.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And in the trial, 17.3% of volunteers who got the drug had signs of brain bleeding, compared with 9% of those who took a placebo.
    — Joseph Walker, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The patients in the trial who took Nexletol had a higher incidence of gout than the placebo group.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Those receiving the active gel had about the same rate of heart attack and stroke as those receiving the placebo, the study found.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
  • About 17% of the Leqembi group experienced brain bleeds, compared with 9% in the placebo group.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • During the first month, the participants’ pain improved in both the placebo and methotrexate groups.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 27 Oct. 2023
  • That is almost identical to the 6.0% who died while taking placebo.
    — Joe Graedon, M.s., and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Disease-free survival for those with stage IV disease was about 68% in the vaccine-only group, and zero in the placebo group.
    — Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • In the group that took bempedoic acid, there were a few more cases of gout and gallstones, compared with people who took a placebo.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Half received a low-dose testosterone gel daily, while the other half was given a placebo.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 17 Jan. 2024
  • There were about twice as many recurrences among the people taking placebos.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 8 June 2023
  • Half were given a placebo and half took a pill that contained 50mg of zuranolone every day for 14 days.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 17 Feb. 2023
  • That compares to only 7% of people who had been given a placebo powder.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Researchers compare how the placebo group responded with those who got a real drug.
    — Rita Zeidner, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The study participants were divided into two groups: 24 adults who used the toothpaste, and eight adults who used a placebo paste.
    — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The others drank a similar-tasting placebo as a control group.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • That may be because men were frustrated when neither the placebo nor the actual medicine worked to ease their symptoms.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 16 June 2023
  • The risk was 41% lower for the metformin group than for a comparison group receiving a placebo.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 15 June 2023
  • Another study of adults with overweight found that those who took a cumin supplement three times a day lost 2.2 pounds more than those in the placebo group after eight weeks.
    — Women's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
  • An old study from 1983 found that people who took Gymnema sylvestre felt less hungry and ended up eating less than those in the placebo group.
    — Women's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Patients who received the shot had a lower viral load a week later than those who received placebo.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The results showed that those who received the CBD oil had reduced anxiety symptoms compared to those who received the placebo.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • People on semaglutide in the trial lost an average of 9.5 percent of their body weight, an 8.5 percentage-point drop over those in the placebo group.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2023

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