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
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
By the following month, it was clear she had untreatable liver cancer.
From BBC • May 9, 2024
There are twenty-seven in Sarasota County, and one hundred and fifteen in all of Florida, spreading across the state like some untreatable rash.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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