as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
an incurable flirt at school dances
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Recent Examples of incurable
Now, more than twenty years later, Gluck brings us An Exercise in Uncertainty, a memoir documenting his long and ongoing struggle with a rare and incurable form of blood cancer called multiple myeloma.
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Terry McDonell 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
For those who don’t know, multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that’s long been known as incurable.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
The bill’s death warrant is limited to patients with a diagnosis that is believed incurable and less than six months to live.
—The Editors, National Review, 10 June 2025
Steve Carell plays Randall Garrett, the group’s Peter Thiel-esque mentor who, not unlike the late Steve Jobs, has cancer that his doctor tells him is incurable.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 4 June 2025
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Terry McDonell 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
For those who don’t know, multiple myeloma is a blood cancer that’s long been known as incurable.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
The bill’s death warrant is limited to patients with a diagnosis that is believed incurable and less than six months to live.
—The Editors, National Review, 10 June 2025
Steve Carell plays Randall Garrett, the group’s Peter Thiel-esque mentor who, not unlike the late Steve Jobs, has cancer that his doctor tells him is incurable.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incurable
Adjective
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Those who are convinced they’re trapped stay helpless and hopeless.—
Amy Morin,
CNBC,
12 June 2025
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In a world where the powerful increasingly act with impunity, taking fictional villains to task makes sense, a form of Hollywood wish fulfillment for those who feel stuck or hopeless.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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They were joined by dozens of other performers across the rock ’n’ roll spectrum, from the hard-stomping Fleshtones to the incorrigible Supersuckers, to Tommy Stinson’s Bash & Pop, to the ageless Linda Gail Lewis — younger sister of music icon Jerry Lee Lewis.—
Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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Critics attack it the same way: the recent success of a provincial right-wing party led many to view Austria as a land of incorrigible neofascists, for which it was sanctioned by the EU.—
Paul Lendvai,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Mar. 2011
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“Incurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurable. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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