curative

Example Sentences

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While there are medical based treatments such as chemotherapy, steroids and hormone therapy available, none of them are "curative", he said.

From BBC • May 19, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

“That was a blatant and wholly inappropriate effort to call sympathy for their client,” he said, requesting a curative instruction, The New York Times reported.

From Salon • May 28, 2024

"Also, the genetic mechanisms of disease that we have identified offer the potential to guide development of curative therapies," adds co-lead author Aaron J. Deutsch, MD, an instructor in the division of Endocrinology at MGH.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

Mom was big on the curative powers of sleep.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix