How to Use pharmaceutical in a Sentence

pharmaceutical

1 of 2 adjective
  • Which is a great idea, a great use of pharmaceutical drugs.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026
  • And so there’s a lot to be said there for the pharmaceutical timeline.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Shares of the pharmaceutical giant were up 5% on the week.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Or when the government is about to approve a new drug that will cause a pharmaceutical stock to take off.
    — William Mersey, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The bank downgraded the pharmaceutical stock to hold from buy.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Some pharmaceutical companies have even sued states to prevent their drugs from being used on death row.
    — Renuka Rayasam, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
  • If two is good, three must be better—at least that’s what pharmaceutical companies are banking on.
    — Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Some called the outbreak a pharmaceutical scheme.
    — Katrine Wallace, STAT, 8 May 2026
  • But they should not be confused with pharmaceutical treatments.
    — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Kennedy floated a full-on ban against pharmaceutical ads during last year’s election cycle.
    — Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Studies show that small amounts of pharmaceutical drugs are present in freshwater sources worldwide.
    — Owen Clarke, Outside, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • To pull the ‘grumpy old man’ away from the TV, Arlene will dance along to the pharmaceutical ads.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The deal is seen as a possible template for the rest of the pharmaceutical industry.
    — Benzinga, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • This speed translates into a sea change for pharmaceutical research.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Others are high-dose, quasi-pharmaceutical relief designed to ameliorate pain and glue your back to the couch.
    — Kate Bernot, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Cluver and her colleagues are hopeful that this might be the first pharmaceutical treatment for preeclampsia.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 14 Feb. 2026
  • These dire figures are what prompted pharmaceutical companies to search for new weight loss treatments.
    — Wesley Dudgeon, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • The fortunes of two pharmaceutical giants are diverging based on their weight-loss drug ventures.
    — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The pharmaceutical company's stock is up roughly 10% in the year to date.
    — Sean Conlon,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 May 2026
  • Trump has been promising for months to levy tariffs on pharmaceutical imports, which avoided tariffs during his first term.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Nearly all the shots American kids get are made by a handful of pharmaceutical giants.
    — Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • On one side are pharmaceutical companies pushing for broader access to life-changing weight-loss drugs.
    — William Warr, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The pills were made to look like Percocet and other pharmaceutical opiates.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • All three of the pharmaceutical giants are in late-stage trials to test whether drugs that cut Lp(a) can protect people from heart attacks.
    — Angelica Peebles, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The company's data acts as a toll booth throughout the pharmaceutical ecosystem.
    — Harvey Stober, CNBC, 24 June 2026
  • About the same percentage of respondents said pharmaceutical companies carry most of the blame for the high costs.
    — Ryan Mancini, The Hill, 29 Nov. 2025

pharmaceutical

2 of 2 noun
  • Prices of other goods, such as pharmaceuticals, have also spiked.
    — Jonathan Lemire, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026
  • There's been a rolling kind of sectoral re-rate [within] pharmaceuticals, as well, from the middle of last year.
    — Michael Considine, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
  • A lot of these soldiers have high divorce rates, high amounts of alcoholism and abuse of pharmaceuticals.
    — William Earl, Variety, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The pills, known as Mona, are a rare pharmaceutical that causes intense orgasms.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The pharmaceuticals sector is enduring a tough year in the stock market.
    — Charley Grant, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Cramer pointed to the downturn in pharmaceutical names.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The price controls on credit cards and pharmaceuticals.
    — CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • Trump has threatened tariffs on pharmaceuticals for months.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 29 Sep. 2025
  • If the wrong enantiomers slip into pharmaceuticals, the effects can sometimes be toxic or even lethal.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For example, dentistry and pharmaceuticals are part of the health care sector.
    — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Danaher is having a nice session, but the pharmaceutical and biotech stocks are getting hammered.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The garden reports that all plants in its three main beds appear in the oldest text on Chinese pharmaceuticals.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • The garden reports that all plants in its three main beds appear in the oldest text on Chinese pharmaceuticals.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • The pharmaceutical stock fell 20% on mixed third-quarter results.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Although pharmaceuticals have been found in rivers around the world, it’s not known whether the current low levels of exposure can harm human health.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The pharmaceuticals and finance industries suffered the largest number of job cuts last month, the data showed.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But a final deal has not been reached over other sectors, including pharmaceuticals, steel and aluminum.
    — Jill Lawless, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Turchin said pharmaceutical companies had no input into the current statin study.
    — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 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
  • The pharmaceutical giant’s stock may appear stuck, but the long-term story remains firmly intact.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The goal is to treat diseases so rare that biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies don’t see a market.
    — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Among some of the most expensive pharmaceuticals are those that require a chiral center, the authors explained.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has promised to impose hefty import taxes on pharmaceuticals, a category of products he’s largely spared in his trade war.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The tariffs range from 25% on heavy trucks to 100% on certain pharmaceuticals.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The goods most likely to make the sailboat journey include wine, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 25 June 2026
  • The pharmaceutical industry got its initial knowledge from the plant kingdom.
    — Lisa Curtis, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Their conversation moves on to whether the pharmaceutical industry could do more to preserve the health of plants as so many drugs and medicines come from the botanical world.
    — Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Food, pharmaceuticals and industrial cargo are expected to be some of the items sent via the new corridor.
    — May 19, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Mikhail, a longtime pharmaceutical executive, was hired by Makary last spring.
    — Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 16 May 2026
  • Despite this, the pharmaceutical industry continues to push for changes that would weaken the program.
    — Demetrius Atsalis, Boston Herald, 27 Mar. 2026

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