curable

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Recent Examples of curable Former President Joe Biden, 82, has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of advanced prostate cancer that has spread to his bones and may be treatable, but not curable, several doctors say. Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 19 May 2025 The move comes as Kennedy has faced criticism during this year's record measles outbreaks for remarks misleading people into thinking that measles infections are easily curable and inflating myths about measles vaccines. Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 1 May 2025 This federal support has driven advances leading to higher survival rates and the transformation of some cancers into a manageable chronic or curable condition. Jeffrey MacKeigan, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2025 The disease is curable and often treated with a standardized course of drugs that usually includes antibiotics. Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for curable
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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
  • Doctors were optimistic her case would be reversible, but the wait was excruciating.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 27 June 2025
  • Visceral fat is reversible with lifestyle changes, Freeman said.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 23 June 2025

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