as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
an incurable flirt at school dances
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Recent Examples of incurable
Authorities in Canada are weighing the case of Claire Brosseau, a 48-year-old woman with severe mental illness who hopes to secure medical help in ending her life but whose own psychiatrists are split over whether her illness is indeed incurable.
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Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
Other problems from this mixture may surface in the lungs, usually by age 20, leading to bronchiectasis, a chronic, incurable respiratory disease.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
In the psychological horror story, ambitious young psychiatrist Parker attempts to make a name for himself by treating Josephine Todd (Berry), the famously incurable patient at his hospital.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
Among them included a young girl who was diagnosed with a deadly and incurable glioblastoma at only 9 years old.
—Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
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Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
Other problems from this mixture may surface in the lungs, usually by age 20, leading to bronchiectasis, a chronic, incurable respiratory disease.
—Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 2 Feb. 2026
In the psychological horror story, ambitious young psychiatrist Parker attempts to make a name for himself by treating Josephine Todd (Berry), the famously incurable patient at his hospital.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
Among them included a young girl who was diagnosed with a deadly and incurable glioblastoma at only 9 years old.
—Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incurable
Adjective
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In a more simplistic story, Derya and Aziz’s efforts to find a good private school for their daughter would come off as a hopeless bourgeois indulgence.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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The result has been a bloodbath in the state of Sinaloa, with thousands killed, thousands more missing and the violence reaching such heights that the Mexican government looks hopeless, if not hapless.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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But the Coop had one thing that failed cooperatives didn’t: Joe Holtz, a gregarious 22-year-old from Sheepshead Bay with a mind for numbers and an incorrigible idealism.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 2025
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Incurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurable. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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