as in medicinal
tending to cure disease or restore health
some believe that the herb has curative properties
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as in antidote
something that corrects or counteracts something undesirable
the best curative for her depression might be volunteer work at a local animal shelter
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Recent Examples of curative
Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
Preventive treatments applied in late spring are most effective, while late-summer damage may require a curative treatment.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 May 2025
Set in the ‘50s, a debt-laden widow battles to retain her manor-house by exploiting her supposedly saintly daughter curative powers.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 8 May 2025
At the core of her work is a belief in the curative power of ballet.
—Cornelia Powers, Glamour, 12 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
Hospice care is given for individuals who have stopped curative treatment and will not survive their illness.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 28 May 2025
Preventive treatments applied in late spring are most effective, while late-summer damage may require a curative treatment.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 May 2025
Set in the ‘50s, a debt-laden widow battles to retain her manor-house by exploiting her supposedly saintly daughter curative powers.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 8 May 2025
At the core of her work is a belief in the curative power of ballet.
—Cornelia Powers, Glamour, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curative
Adjective
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Instead, horehound candy tastes distinctly bittersweet and almost medicinal, due to its herby main ingredient that gets only slightly jazzed up with sugar or molasses.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
11 July 2025
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Caligula was also convinced that his own father, Germanicus, died from poisoning, a belief that may have encouraged him to study medicinal plants in order to avoid the same fate.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
Noun
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This felt therapeutic, an antidote to the toxic diet of overly personal information that we are fed daily by our phones.—
Guy Trebay,
Travel + Leisure,
15 July 2025
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That's where the VIRSA framework comes in—an antidote to chaos disguised as complexity.—
Saby Waraich,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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This synergy can be harnessed to optimize the effects of individual terpenes or enhance the therapeutic potential of plants like cannabis.—
Peter Su,
Rolling Stone,
15 July 2025
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And music and arts are known to be therapeutic for people with mental and behavioral disorders.—
Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Sabraw ordered the government last month to renew its contract with Acacia as part of its remedy for violating the settlement.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
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Most sea lice rashes can be treated with at-home remedies.—
Evan Moore
July 8,
Charlotte Observer,
8 July 2025
Noun
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Among the solutions being listed out are ways of resetting e-commerce agreements to restrict products crossing borders, and carefully balancing the explosive growth planned by online platforms like Lazada, Shopee, Temu and TikTok Shop.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
14 July 2025
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But while some politicians say these registries are a potential solution to a public health problem, many disability advocates see them as ineffective tools that give people a false sense of security because there is no guarantee of evacuation help.—
Miranda Green,
CBS News,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Commercial therapy chatbots performed even worse than the base AI models in many categories.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 July 2025
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Abramowitz emphasizes that the app isn't aimed at providing therapy, but rather is there to offer support.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
11 July 2025
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The expert emphasized, however, that hypnosis is not a standalone cure for problem drinking.—
Shiv Sudhakar,
FOXNews.com,
10 July 2025
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While minoxidil is not a cure for TE, it has been used off-label for this condition.—
Jessica Swirble,
Verywell Health,
10 July 2025
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“Curative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curative. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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