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Band-Aid

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a Band-Aid (American)
a temporary solution to a problem, or something that seems to be a solution but has no real effect. A few food and medical supplies were delivered to the region but it was little more than a Band-Aid.

Band-Aid (American)

a Band-Aid - a temporary solution to a problem, or something that seems to be a solution but has no real effect. He criticized what he called 'the government's Band-Aid approach' to serious environmental issues.

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He still had to play in the faculty versus the community basketball game--and did so with a Band-Aid on the end of his nose.
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While it's a Band-aid solution, the news is welcomed in Texas, where people of color make up the majority of residents and where nearly a quarter of the state's folks don't have health insurance.
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Hence, she spotlights inventors of cosmetics ("glamorous women of ancient Egypt") alongside Earle Dickson (inventor of the Band-Aid in 1920) and Clarence Birdseye (inventor of frozen food, 1924).
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