untreatable
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Over the past several years, engineered cell therapies such as CAR-T treatments have produced dramatic, sometimes lifesaving results for people with cancers that were once considered untreatable.
From Science Daily • Jan. 20, 2026
The disease is progressive and fatal, and has until now been almost entirely untreatable.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025
Known by the stage name JD Twitch, he was diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour earlier this year.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
It's happening to the current treatments too and is why some doctors are concerned gonorrhoea could one-day become untreatable.
From BBC • May 20, 2025
The “black cholera” was untreatable, a mystery thought to be carried by “bad air.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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