How to Use pharmaceutical in a Sentence

pharmaceutical

1 of 2 adjective
  • And so there’s a lot to be said there for the pharmaceutical timeline.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The caveats Drive Pilot comes with a list of caveats that would be the envy of any pharmaceutical ad writer.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Novo Nordisk has shown few signs of slowing down since taking the pharmaceutical world by storm last year.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The case is the first of a slew of cases filed by the pharmaceutical industry and its allies to be decided at the district court level.
    Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 1 Mar. 2024
  • One of them is now the CEO of a big pharmaceutical company, another is a doctor and a third a drug dealer.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Doctors also prescribe that drug off-label for weight loss, which is one of the hottest areas of pharmaceutical sales.
    Tom Murphy, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The vaccine, made by the pharmaceutical company GSK, is for older adults.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 3 May 2023
  • The pharmaceutical industry has the motivation and means to conduct these studies and does not need to be subsidized by the NIH.
    Mark J. Ratain, STAT, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The pills were made to look like Percocet and other pharmaceutical opiates.
    Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Some pharmaceutical companies have even sued states to prevent their drugs from being used on death row.
    Renuka Rayasam, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But pharmaceutical giant Moderna is way ahead of the curve.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The county was among the communities that pharmaceutical companies flooded with millions of pain pills in the 2000s.
    Renuka Rayasam, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
  • The pharmaceutical company is now willing to pay $8.9 billion to plaintiffs over 25 years.
    David Goldman, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The company’s revenue last year was about 10 times that of the next largest Danish pharmaceutical company, Lundbeck.
    Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • One of the changes the new act makes is allowing the U.S. government to negotiate the prices of prescription drugs with pharmaceutical companies.
    Steve Lord, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Financial freedom is high on the list of reasons why 74-year-old Joe Sanchez keeps working his 9-to-5 in sales at a pharmaceutical supply company.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The consequences for the pharmaceutical industry were vast, the department wrote in its brief, emphasizing that the F.D.A.’s approval had been in effect for years.
    Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • All three brand-name drugs are made by Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 15 June 2023
  • Though numerous pharmaceutical companies have been sued for their roles in the opioid epidemic, the Sacklers and Purdue loom large in the story of the complex, decades-old crisis.
    Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • The film follows the modern-day opioid crisis through three different viewpoints: the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, a doctor and a patient.
    Caroline Brew, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis launched a trial in 2014 for adults with severe hearing loss due to the damage of their sensory hair cells.
    WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • These dire figures are what prompted pharmaceutical companies to search for new weight loss treatments.
    Wesley Dudgeon, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • The chemistry student certified by a pharmaceutical company that does the same?
    Matthew Mayhew, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But the effort — which must still be approved by the European Council — drew mixed reactions from the pharmaceutical industry and consumer groups.
    Ed Silverman, STAT, 11 Apr. 2024
  • In this, the pharmaceutical industry is unique: No other industry asserts that its prices should be based on the higher costs of alternatives.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • It’s considered one of the most promising uses for AI and Wertheimer will be competing with dozens of startups, not to mention in-house efforts at large pharmaceutical companies.
    Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In 1912, the German pharmaceutical company Bayer ran an ad for cough syrup in a Spanish newspaper.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The typical route for biotech development is to start in an academic lab, sell the discovery to a pharmaceutical company, get FDA approval and then get it on the market.
    Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The parties that benefit are the pharmaceutical companies and the pharmacies.
    Joe and Teresa Graedon, oregonlive, 12 June 2023
  • Ultimately, the goal for many venture capitalists is to take the most promising startups public or to sell them or some of their pharmaceutical assets to bigger drug firms.
    Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
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pharmaceutical

2 of 2 noun
  • The pharmaceuticals sector is enduring a tough year in the stock market.
    Charley Grant, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2023
  • In the next few years, new pharmaceuticals may offer non-hormonal forms of relief, but none have been FDA-approved as of right now.
    Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In essence, pharmaceuticals were much less present in redfish muscle tissue than in blood.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In short, psychedelics have never been and will never be like other pharmaceuticals.
    Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • If the wrong enantiomers slip into pharmaceuticals, the effects can sometimes be toxic or even lethal.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • And to quickly boost resilience in its pharmaceutical supply, the United States need not look further than the Western Hemisphere.
    Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • One day, perhaps, lavender and lemon balm will sit on the shelf next to pharmaceuticals in hospital supply closets.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Despite the fact that there are some supplements that may help with erections to a certain extent, supplements are not held to the standards of pharmaceuticals.
    Elizabeth Millard, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
  • Judd was a native of Las Vegas who’d dabbled in real estate and pharmaceutical sales while his wife, Jennifer, stayed home with their two sons and two daughters.
    Lizzie Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The pharmaceutical industry, which is next to Wall Street, is the most powerful political force in the country.
    Anna Gordon, TIME, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Twelve-step programs, pharmaceuticals that reduce cravings, a stint at a mental hospital or even time in prison — all of that can be helpful, too.
    Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Her office didn’t disclose whether the probe also will look at pharmaceuticals, gasoline or other non-food items sold by the grocery giants.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
  • That’s more than either the pharmaceutical or oil and gas industries spent, Bloomberg News reported.
    Mark Kreidler, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Now they were convinced that not only was Tiffany dead, but that the hospital and pharmaceutical companies had replaced her with a body double.
    Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • That’s the name the Japanese pharmaceutical firm Takeda gives to its commitment to all stakeholders.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The implication is that people still attached to the biotech and pharmaceutical industry secretly hate the FDA and are afraid to criticize the agency.
    Adam Feuerstein and Matthew Herper, STAT, 31 July 2023
  • The Grey Team’s program features an array of machines using infrared light, lasers and sound waves meant to relieve stress, heal mental and physical wounds and help the vets sleep without the use of pharmaceuticals.
    Terry Spencer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2023
  • Since then, the Danish pharmaceutical group’s profile has only grown as the bosses of major retailers and food suppliers took the time to name-drop Ozempic in their earnings calls.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The team hopes Cocaine Sharks raises public awareness of the impact that drugs, including pharmaceuticals, can have on marine life.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 26 July 2023
  • Without pharmaceuticals, the agency says, the country’s GDP would have instead fallen 0.1%.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The money includes investments from pharmaceutical and food giants, but also from Silicon Valley elite who don’t come from the world of biotech.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Tunde is married to a woman named Sadako, a Massachusetts native who works in pharmaceuticals.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Adams will succeed Lauren White, who will be leaving C4T to pursue a new role with a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company.
    Bysheryl Estrada, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • It was sold at around the same time as Tatoosh to the Swedish pharmaceuticals billionaire Roger Samuelsson after originally being listed for $325 million.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Biomedical research and pharmaceutical testing require monkeys of varying ages, but most need to be at least three years old.
    Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The Swiss pharmaceutical should reach $3.2 billion in peak sales of Scemblix after the drug showed positive results compared with competitors, the analysts say.
    WSJ, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Before his current position, Wolk was the VP of investor relations and he’s also led the finance function for pharmaceuticals and the global supply chain.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The news sent Lilly’s share price up about 6% on Wednesday, burnishing the reputation of what has become Wall Street’s favorite pharmaceutical giant.
    Damian Garde, STAT, 3 May 2023
  • The slightly slimy ocean vegetable also is used to make a number of human products including shampoo, toothpaste, pharmaceuticals and food.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Since then, the country’s low corporate tax rate has lured large multinational tech and pharmaceutical firms to its shores, and their payments to the government have bolstered revenue substantially.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024

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