How to Use pharma in a Sentence

pharma

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Definition of pharmanext
  • Well, Monday was a day for the pharma team to chalk up a win.
    — Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Three big deals kicked off the week — two in pharma, one in finance.
    — Dana Pardini, Bloomberg.com, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In the battle over high drug prices, big pharma is starting to strike the right note.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2017
  • There’s a lot of med-device in this town, but not a lot of pharma-type stuff, not a lot of biotech.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2019
  • At the same time, more than half the world’s large pharma companies are based here.
    — David A. Ricks, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Bollyky ventured that the WHO may have lacked the money or clout to take on big pharma.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Big pharma could pay for this with a percentage of their huge profits.
    — Time, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Overhiring by pharma had put many back on the job market.
    — NBC News, 9 June 2017
  • Expect that point to be rammed home in the future when governments again turn their wrath on big pharma over high prices.
    — The Economist, 6 June 2020
  • Midsized and biggish bio-pharma firms, for instance, have done far better than the very largest ones.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Big pharma is still splurging on R&D but not making out like a bandit.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Unlike the Camp plan, the minimum tax system wouldn't just apply to tech or pharma products shipped to the US, but those sold all over the world.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Dopesick takes a look at America's opioid crisis through the lens of addicts and big pharma.
    — Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The measure died in committee after the pharma lobby staged its flash mob at the 2016 meeting.
    — Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
  • As the pandemic began last year, Soriot, 61, was the hottest CEO in big pharma.
    — Nathan Vardi, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Your corrupt pharma giant is called Dr. Smile; his wife is named Happy.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
  • Trust us, every pharma company has already thought of this one and has been working on it.
    — Zuzu Snyder, Marie Claire, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The song talks about big pharma, the environment and drones, which are more evergreen than, say, name-checking Robert Mueller.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Even so, the vote prompted speculation that a pharma price deal might be within reach.
    — Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The molecules aren’t a slam dunk, and would take perhaps a year of lab work to refine—meaning the AI wouldn’t save a big pharma company much time, if any.
    — Wired, 2 Sep. 2019
  • Max Nisen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, pharma and health care.
    — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Brett initially covered bioethics for the Pro team and more recently, handled the pharma beat.
    — Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Nisen is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering biotech, pharma and health care.
    — Max Nisen, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • How could big pharma not register with people right now?
    — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 30 July 2021
  • Energy companies, big industries, big pharma and the like are the ones pushing this agenda of the Court.
    — Richard Schiffman, Scientific American, 8 July 2022
  • Sarepta is a contender, but so are the small biotech Solid Biosciences and pharma giant Pfizer.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 19 June 2018
  • The state, which leads the country in opioid deaths, is suing five pharma companies because of the epidemic.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Cleary’s parents problems predated the meteoric rise of Purdue in the realm of big pharma.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 June 2018
  • Fortune Weight loss for less Danish pharma sensation Novo Nordisk fell under the spotlight for the wrong reasons last week.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
  • In response, some pharma companies have responded by setting higher launch prices for new drugs.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024

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