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sugar pill
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sugar pill
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sugar pill
noun
plural
sugar pills
sugar pill
noun
plural
sugar pills
Learner's definition of SUGAR PILL
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a pill that is given to a patient like a drug but that has no medicine in it
:
placebo
Half the patients were given the medication and the other half received a
sugar pill
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