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Recent Examples of incurable The affliction is incurable, but Kevin treated his audience to detailed accountings of his treatments and of the status of his health, often with good humor, after he was first diagnosed in 2014. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025 In 2018, Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier learned that three of their four children were losing their vision because of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a progressive, incurable retinal disease. Andrew Leland, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2025 Lemon has been dealing with a rare and incurable blood disorder known as polycythemia vera, which causes his bone marrow to produce an excess of red blood cells. Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2025 In the decade since she was diagnosed with an incurable brain disease, Joline Tingler has been in and out of a half dozen Orange County homeless shelters. Calmatters, The Mercury News, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for incurable
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Adjective
  • Feeling hopeless in her quest to stop Crawford and help Delia get her life back, Elsbeth confronts the boastful judge, who is riding high on his rising star and his triumph over her.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Chelsea Smith thought that celebrities, feeling empty and hopeless even with all their success, could benefit from the Gospel.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Even from beyond the grave, that man proves to be incorrigible in his audacity.
    Ayan Artan, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025

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“Incurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurable. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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