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curé

[kyoor] / kjʊər /


cure






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He wished to rest in his own churchyard, and let the abbé Gaultier and the curé de St. Sulpice squabble as to who should have, the honor of his conversion.

From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Well, one fine day they met in secret, and sent a churchwarden with a complaint to the bishop, and a thunderbolt fell on the poor curé.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

Then the curé guessed where the shoe pinched.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

Ay!" said his host, "I am that curé: so now thou canst guess why I said 'At their old tricks.'

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

"Oh, sir, for pity's sake let me have speech with his reverence the curé."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

He said she ignored doctors' advice to accept conventional treatment and became a "victim of misinformation about cancer", putting her faith in the drugs in the hope of a cure.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

It was not as though the open air of a farmers market was going to cure my base shopping instincts.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

The cure for what ails us, in Mr. Epley’s prognosis, is making what he calls “the choice.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

IG analyst Fabien Yip said: "Unless paired with a genuine shift in BoJ policy, intervention will continue to function as a circuit-breaker rather than a cure for yen weakness."

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

And through the Firebus ride to the game, as the mirrored softball spins, so does my brain: Maybe he was working on the cure for some disease.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

Essentially, the man appears to be opting out of the medical establishment altogether, while using his own girlfriend and his “clone baby” as experimental proving grounds for self-starter cures involving lots of peptides.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

FDA approved anti amyloid therapies now target disease biology in early Alzheimer's, though they are not cures and do not restore lost memory or cognitive function.

From Science Daily May 27, 2026

“Like an ice cube that freezes from the outside in — this stuff cures, it heats up and cures from the outside in,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times May 24, 2026

Finding the right mix of legislative and policy cures is the mandate of the National Commission on the Future of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

They needed to know which foods were nourishing, which made you sick, and how to use others as cures.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

In the case of the French curés, the crucial story was that of Christ’s life and death as told by the Catholic Church.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

What an admirable piece of buffoonery! these curés going in turn to shrive the writers of the eighteenth century, and having flung at their heads epigrams composed for the occasion, perhaps, ten years before.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

While the question was before the Sorbonne, the curés of Paris published various writings, under the name of ‘Facta,’ in support of the conclusions to which they had come. 

From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

These vaults of M. Duchâtel’s, in which a considerable stock of the fine wine of 1874 is stored, are from two to three centuries old, and probably belonged to the curés of St. Jacques.

From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Vizetelly, Henry

The Bishop did as he pleased, in the appointment of curés.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles

Parkinson’s disease, according to the Mayo Clinic, is a nervous system movement disorder that worsens with time and cannot be cured.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

In the original 2009 paper, the concept was that any food which required some form of cooking—including bread, cured sausages, corn chips, etc.—would be considered an “ultra” processed food product.

From Slate Jul. 12, 2026

You order mazanilla, maybe some cured beef, and you listen.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

But you’ve never heard of this depression because neglect cured it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

Mr. ast me how I git her to eat I say, Nobody living can stand to smell home cured ham without tasting it.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

Assigning yourself the heavy duty of curing all disorders, however, strikes me as even more hubristic than comparing oneself to Jesus Christ.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

In 2023, she became a patron of Brain Tumour Research - a charity dedicated to curing the disease.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

UV light is used for air purification, curing resins in 3D printing, hardening gels in dental fillings, and even applications such as nail treatments.

From Science Daily Jun. 26, 2026

Her parents both work in the medical field, which helps her keep perspective: “I’m not performing brain surgery or curing cancer,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

I’d never been anything but terminal; all my treatment had been in pursuit of extending my life, not curing my cancer.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green




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