how to pronounce placebo
/pləˈsiːboʊ/
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placebo is pronounced in three syllables
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An example use of placebo in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… prospective placebo-controlled trial of …”
meanings of placebo
noun:
- A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
- The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
placebo frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR
the word placebo occurs in english on average 0.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics placebo can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that placebo can be often used in the following areas:
1) education, science, and technology;
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