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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for incurable
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Adjective
  • Those who are convinced they’re trapped stay helpless and hopeless.
    Amy Morin, CNBC, 12 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 3 Jul. 2025.

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