curable

Example Sentences

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This is not the first research to suggest dementia might someday be curable.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

The former teacher and father of three told the BBC that if men were offered regular screening from the age of 50, his disease might have been caught when it was still curable.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

Cancers that were considered death sentences not long ago—e.g., advanced melanoma, non-small-cell lung and blood cancers—are now curable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025

“One of the things we talk about is cancer within a team and how there are times when cancer can really affect a lot of things and it’s not curable and it spreads,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025

You feel it coming on halfway through a shift or later, and you can interpret it the normal way as a symptom of a kind of low-level illness, curable with immediate rest.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich