untreatable
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The disease is progressive and fatal, and has until now been almost entirely untreatable.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
Over time, the bacterium has developed resistance to most classes of available antibiotics and experts fear it may become untreatable in the future, unless new drugs are found.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
The group's previous work includes creating a portable testing library to match phages to otherwise untreatable antibiotic-resistant infections, a contamination test incorporated into food packaging, and a temperature-stable storage system for live vaccines.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
The pathogen was already resistant to the two most common anti-fungal drugs—and when they exposed it to higher temperatures, it quickly developed resistance against a third, leaving it essentially untreatable with current medicines.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 19, 2024
An untreatable fungal disease called anthracnose is wiping out the lovely dogwoods not just here but everywhere in America.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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