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The phrase "a palliative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a treatment or remedy that alleviates symptoms without curing the underlying condition, often in a medical context.
Example: "The doctor prescribed a palliative to help manage the patient's pain during their illness."
Alternatives: "a relief measure" or "a soothing treatment."
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Younger consumers came to regard it, like Scotch, as a palliative for parents and squares.
And there's a palliative Mr. Galliano, Ritalin.
"I'm a palliative care doctor," I replied.
We were entering a "palliative mode".
They're there as a palliative for the non-veteran.
There was often the taste of a palliative.
A palliative care patient with lung cancer is deteriorating quickly.
Who might be treated in a palliative care unit?
Yet Chinese medicine is no more than a palliative.
"We don't walk away from cancer we can't cure; we take a palliative approach.
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The mother's abandonment is the psychic wound for which the antics of the cat make so useless a palliative.
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