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  • noun Plural form of placebo.

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Examples

  • I got her pills and told her they were fertility pills, but they were only what we call placebos.

    Family Storms 2011

  • I got her pills and told her they were fertility pills, but they were only what we call placebos.

    Family Storms 2011

  • The miraculous effect of placebos is to be dissected.

    Even Placebo Sells With Creativity 2007

  • So perhaps these periodic blogswarms are a bit like belief in placebos: Immunologically useful, even if largely based on falsehood.

    The Benefits of Hysteria 2007

  • Doctors occasionally call placebos "obecalp" as a code name.

    Perception, deception, and placebo power 2008

  • Doctors occasionally call placebos "obecalp" as a code name.

    Perception, deception, and placebo power 2008

  • GUPTA: Researchers say alarm system is less active when drugs called placebos are given to patients.

    CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2004 2004

  • Whatever it is, you need to acknowledge it and then access all the best "placebos" you can find.

    Alison Rose Levy: Don't Get Depressed Because Your Antidepressant is a Placebo 2008

  • Guess what: the patient then goes next door, to one of the 46% of the 57% of the 1200, who will suggest that they take OTC vitamins or other innocuous compounds, typically describing them not as "placebos" but as "a medicine not typically used for your condition but might benefit you."

    Archive 2008-10-01 1 Dinosaur 2008

  • Guess what: the patient then goes next door, to one of the 46% of the 57% of the 1200, who will suggest that they take OTC vitamins or other innocuous compounds, typically describing them not as "placebos" but as "a medicine not typically used for your condition but might benefit you."

    Medical Journalism -- "Gotcha" Style 1 Dinosaur 2008

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