curable

adjective

Definition of curablenext
as in remediable

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Recent Examples of curable The condition isn’t curable and has to be efficiently managed over time. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 Improvements in blood tests, meanwhile, dovetail with rapid developments in treatments for various cancers, making the disease ever more survivable or even curable. — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 22 June 2026 Most thyroid cancers are permanently curable with treatment. — Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 28 May 2026 And since no one expires from, say, cancer or other now-curable diseases, and bones and organs can be replaced like car parts with artificial spares, people only pass when involved in freak accidents…or take their own lives. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 24 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for curable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for curable
  1. remediable
  2. recoverable
  3. reversible
  4. retrievable
  5. redeemable
Adjective
  • And those hard-material limits are not remediable through belief.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • Others described disciplinary processes that escalated quickly and unpredictably, often tied to subjective assessments of behavior rather than remediable clinical skills.
    — Vanessa Grubbs, STAT, 1 June 2026
Definition of remediable
Adjective
  • The leadership task of the Mythos era is to make that trust durable enough for machine-speed change and recoverable when an attacker breaks it.
    — Robert Bobel, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Transaction fees may or may not count toward the recoverable amount.
    — Ethan Stone, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of recoverable
Adjective
  • At one end are low-risk, reversible decisions where AI may operate with substantial autonomy.
    — Jayasri Ranganathan, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • At one time, Ridge Avenue between Clark Street and Hollywood Avenue, and Hollywood Avenue between Ridge Avenue and Sheridan Road, had reversible lanes during rush hour periods.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of reversible
Adjective
  • The ancient poet may have thus been surprised to learn that today, time is indeed retrievable—at least somewhat.
    — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026
  • And newer brands can build easily retrievable content and clean website architecture without worrying about legacy technical debt.
    — Tyler Jordan, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Definition of retrievable
Adjective
  • The company attributed the loss mainly to fair-value losses on its convertible redeemable preferred shares, as per its prospectus.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Unused components of the prize have no redeemable cash value.
    — August 16, NPR, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of redeemable

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“Curable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curable. Accessed 4 Oct. 2026.

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