curable

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Recent Examples of curable Tuberculosis is treatable and curable, the CDC says. Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 4 Dec. 2025 In this book, Green presents TB as very much a present, fatal, yet curable concern. Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025 Those are illnesses that should be curable. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025 In this case, photo-curable resin is the print material instead of a solid spool. Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for curable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curable
Adjective
  • Illogically, these remediable ordeals have gone on for decades, like the Tijuana River pollution disaster.
    Vincent Blocker, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Government has provided incentives for wind and solar since the 1970s; the problems that remain are inherent, not entirely remediable.
    WSJ, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
Adjective
  • The state’s 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act caps recoverable renovation expenses at $50,000 spread over 15 years.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Two years later, on April 26, 1949, a military board classified Bowden’s remains as non-recoverable.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The physical Switch and Switch 2 editions, featuring game cartridges, sticker sheets, postcards, milk caps and a reversible cover, will ship in May.
    Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 29 Jan. 2026
  • It’s designed to be biocompatible—not harmful to living tissue—though, and to stay in the body for as long as a decade and be reversible at any time with a sodium bicarbonate injection.
    Ana Castelain, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • He might be better served by taking his own advice before dissing so many of his fellow rappers on publicly retrievable jail calls.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Those vouchers would be redeemable for a future men’s basketball game this season, based on availability.
    SportsDay Staff, Dallas Morning News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But there were a few redeemable qualities each had, and Ross should be looking for these traits in all of his candidates.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 11 Jan. 2026

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“Curable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curable. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.

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