terminally ill

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: having a disease that cannot be cured and will cause death

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As the second season of The Pitt began airing, Brittany Allen began seeing a passionate fan reaction to her character, Roxie Hamler, a terminally ill cancer patient, and saw her name pop up on a number of early Emmy predictions lists. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2026 Shannon Gallagher, a former Surfside commission candidate, asked a Broward judge to dismiss murder charges, arguing police conducted a flawed investigation into the 2022 shooting death of her terminally ill uncle. — Joan Murray, CBS News, 29 June 2026

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