How to Use untreatable in a Sentence
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At the same time, the worst possible side effect of these treatments is death; untreatable leukemia ends the same way.
—Charles Graeber, WIRED, 25 July 2019
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In the worst case, the water would be untreatable, forcing the cities to use alternate supplies for a time.
—New York Times, 24 June 2021
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There were doctors there who had stopped thinking of her kind of cancer as untreatable.
—John Jeremiah Sullivan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
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Our father, Paul Nichols, a practicing physician, died in 1944 at age forty-four of acute leukemia, untreatable at that time.
—Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
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A third of those will get the drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea, a condition that may soon be untreatable.
—Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018
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His condition was, at the time, untreatable; he was futilely instructed to work no more than four hours a day.
—Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
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In the past, Dodd has worked in labs designated BSL-4, the highest level, which can handle airborne pathogens that may be untreatable.
—Elisabeth Eaves, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
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This video, produced by the CDC, outlines the dangers out untreatable gonorrhea.
—Lauren Castle, azcentral, 6 Apr. 2018
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More careful use of antibiotics could help avoid a near-untreatable strain of S. typhi emerging.
—The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
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Three families, each with a child battling DIPG, a rare, untreatable form of brain cancer, needed help for the holidays.
—Tribune News Service, al, 25 Dec. 2020
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To make matters worse, feline heartworm disease is currently untreatable: The medicines used on dogs would be fatal to cats.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
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Despite being left with a 13-inch scar on her stomach, Grunewald's cancer returned as small tumors in her liver and was untreatable through surgery.
—Chris Chavez, SI.com, 11 June 2019
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That, Shaul hopes, will inhibit the progression of treatable low-grade tumors to more advanced, untreatable stages.
—Larry Luxner, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2020
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These lessons learned provide a model for finding treatments for the thousands of currently untreatable diseases and the millions of people who live with them.
—George Vradenburg, STAT, 29 May 2021
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Since then, canine distemper, an untreatable virus that can infect many types of carnivores, has spread among Amur tigers across the subspecies' range in Russia's far east.
—Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
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Spencer, a 13-year-old who in recent years became a beloved figure on the race route, was recently diagnosed with untreatable liver cancer.
—Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2023
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The actor passed away in his Northern California home on Monday morning from an untreatable form of cancer.
—Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2021
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The canines convened in honor of Spencer, who died two months ago after being diagnosed with untreatable cancer.
—Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
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Kymera wants to use the body’s innate ability to break down and recycle proteins and redirect it to target untreatable diseases.
—Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2019
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Every headache was a brain tumor; every ache was cancer; every rash was something untreatable and fatal.
—Molly Jong-Fas, Vogue, 26 Aug. 2021
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We're saddened to announce the passing of K-9 Ruby following a sudden, acute, and untreatable illness.
—CBS News, 16 May 2022
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Then, Arends, 64, told the chamber that a doctor last month had diagnosed him with an untreatable, terminal condition.
—Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2020
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The pig disease — a highly contagious and untreatable outbreak that is not fatal to humans but can be spread by us — has now extended swiftly out of China.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
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Podiatrist Ravi Kamble recalls a patient with a gangrenous foot, an untreatable infection that spread to the bone.
—Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2020
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This has raised concerns of the development of more super bugs that may be untreatable with current medications.
—Jason Lemon, ajc, 28 Nov. 2017
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His son Andrew said the cause was a combination of pulmonary fibrosis and a more recent emergence of lung cancer that was untreatable because of the fibrosis.
—John Schwartz, New York Times, 5 May 2020
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This type of hearing loss, which affects many people, is currently untreatable; it isn’t helped by hearing aids or cochlear implants, both of which depend on the auditory nerve to send the final signals to the brain.
—Ashley P. Taylor, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2012
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The ultimate fear is that eventually, gonorrhea could prove wholly untreatable, in at least some people.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
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The jury is still out on how gene therapies, which potentially offer one-time cures for previously untreatable diseases, should be priced.
—Denise Roland, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018
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Many more of us are going to be living on the knife's edge soon, wondering if the next new federal or state policy will plunge us into poverty, or make our illnesses financially untreatable, or kill us.
—Kashana Cauley, Esquire, 15 Dec. 2016
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