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Recent Examples of incurable Yet even a 5-foot-5, 150-pound pencil pusher understands that a bad offensive line is an incurable disease for a football team. Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025 Middleton is in remission, and King Charles is said to be continuing his treatment for cancer that is considered incurable but manageable. Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 16 Sep. 2025 Who knew the antidote for my incurable pixie cut envy would be a 13-second video of Kate Middleton? Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2025 However, the statute doesn’t address incurable violations, such as, for example, unsafe driving, raucous disturbances, or misuse of common facilities. Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for incurable
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Adjective
  • To summarize, the protagonist, lost in hopeless days, eventually stumbles upon a deserted dance hall.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The movie, which premiered in the midnights section of the Toronto International Film Festival, follows a hopeless romantic who makes a Faustian bargain to win his crush’s heart.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Who was this alien observer, whose gaze made me into a (slightly) better person, whose gaze (slightly) reduced my incorrigible self-centeredness?
    Michael W. Clune, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025

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“Incurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurable. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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