curative

Example Sentences

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Watt Smith’s “Bad Friend” proved a much-needed curative.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

So when my oncologist used the words "curative intent" in a meeting to discuss treatment, I felt a huge weight lift off my chest.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

Treatments are available for only a handful of hereditary diseases, and curative therapies are even more rare.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2024

Even as a child, obsessed with music and comedy, he found his curative: “I had a need to become creative. I had to give birth to myself.”

From Salon • Feb. 29, 2024

Later, indeed, Holmes would establish his own curative spa on the second floor of his Englewood building and call it the Silver Ash Institute.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson