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curé

[kyoor] / kjʊər /


cure






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For the curé was an honest man, and would have made him disgorge.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

"He is more churchman than layman, being convent bred, and in the lesser orders," said the ready curé.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

"Mayhap 'twas for that I did propose it," said the curé subtly.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

The curé sighed, and his eye twinkled cunningly.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

His lordship hurled the skull furiously after him as he ran, at which the curé gave a shout of dismay and put forth his arm to hinder him, but was too late.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

But if you are an AI company about to launch an IPO, you say that very soon you will cure cancers, produce music only angels have heard, solve equations that have bedeviled mankind for millennia.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

"That is the IPO story in essay form: we are the responsible firm; we are the cure; buy the safety premium," he posted on X, referring to widely expected initial public offering.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

A heart transplant is currently the only cure for heart failure.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

In September Rene Haas, the boss of chip designer Arm, told the BBC he believed the tech would come up with a cure for cancer "within our lifetime".

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

I thought I could cure diabetes by spreading suntan lotion on sticks of chewing gum.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Capitalism and pharma are delivering cures that increase life expectancy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

It’s not a silver bullet that cures polarization, settles complicated policy debates or ensures that everyone gets along.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

"All she had read online was that it cures cancer."

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Essentially, the man appears to be opting out of the medical establishment altogether, while using his own girlfriend and his “clone baby” as experimental proving grounds for self-starter cures involving lots of peptides.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

Other cures are harder to account for, but that’s beside the point: medieval people did not share our need to understand the world scientifically.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

In the case of the French curés, the crucial story was that of Christ’s life and death as told by the Catholic Church.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

V. The church livings shall be, like the dioceses, rearranged; and the curés be appointed by the bishop, but not without the approbation of the government.

From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

During the same elections the curés were officially forbidden to advise their people to vote for 'friends of religion,' and those who did so advise were fined after the election to the number of 300!

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

There is a great love for the culte here among our people—a very great love for it; but they do not like to be meddled with in politics by the curés or the priests.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

He was no more liked by the Protestant rectors than by the Catholic curés.

From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

Because the disorder can be treated and, in some cases, potentially cured, detecting it earlier could help reduce the risk of preventable cardiovascular complications.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

OpenAI founder Sam Altman and others have said that many of today’s diseases could be mitigated if not cured in the next decade.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

"When I was sad or lonely, everything would be cured when I drew pictures," she said.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

For years, doctors treated patients suffering from severe, chronic hepatitis C with an expensive drug regimen that required six to 12 months of treatment, had nasty side effects and rarely cured the disease.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

“I cured it all week and it was still wet,” I told the others.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The lesson from the US however, has been that talking about benefits to the overall national economy, or potentially curing cancer, does not always cut it locally.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

“So they don’t need to spend as much on curing illness; they spend a lot more on getting services in place to prevent illness,” he said.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

The goal is to manage pain and symptoms, rather than curing the illness, in the patient’s final months, weeks or days before death.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Her parents both work in the medical field, which helps her keep perspective: “I’m not performing brain surgery or curing cancer,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

She knew many curses, and was better at causing sickness, perhaps, than at curing it.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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