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
The findings mark a significant step towards developing new peptide-based treatments for currently untreatable neurodegenerative conditions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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 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
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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