as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
an incurable flirt at school dances
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Recent Examples of incurable
Not for the last decade, since he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer.
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Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
The Natchez resident had multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.
—Bonnie Bolden, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Tennis champion Monica Seles is speaking publicly for the first time about her battle with a rare, incurable muscle-weakening disease.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
The defence submitted that Ong suffers from multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer that affects his blood plasma cells and renders him immuno-compromised.
—CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
The Natchez resident had multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.
—Bonnie Bolden, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Tennis champion Monica Seles is speaking publicly for the first time about her battle with a rare, incurable muscle-weakening disease.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
The defence submitted that Ong suffers from multiple myeloma, an incurable cancer that affects his blood plasma cells and renders him immuno-compromised.
—CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incurable
Adjective
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But the situation is not hopeless.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
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Dealing with the horrors of the situation in Gaza within the sterile environment of a call center, its workers are feeling increasingly hopeless, caught in the political crossfire of an escalating situation.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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Nick’s parents are divorced, and the panic attacks begin after Nick, having become incorrigible in adolescence, is ordered by his mom to go live with his dad in a subdivision called Chariot Courts, in Libertyville, Illinois, an exurb of Chicago.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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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 9 Sep. 2025.
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