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as in antidote
something that corrects or counteracts something undesirable
a fun hobby is always a good cure for boredom
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as in remedy
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
researchers tirelessly working to find a cure for cancer
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as in to heal
to bring about recovery from
do you have anything that will cure my headache?
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as in to rehabilitate
to restore to a healthy condition
the antibiotic cured the sick boy of the bacterial infection
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as in curate
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Recent Examples of cure
Francis Collins, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
But throughout it all, Cohen remained hopeful for a cure.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
While research has not established that a specific tea can cure a common cold, certain teas may help alleviate symptoms like congestion, cough, and sore throat.
—Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 6 Jan. 2025
Francis Collins, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
But throughout it all, Cohen remained hopeful for a cure.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Noun
This is the best hope for the tens of millions of children and adults who are waiting for a cure.
—Francis Collins, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
But throughout it all, Cohen remained hopeful for a cure.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Verb
There isn't a magic diet that will cure or control cancer, as the National Cancer Institute explains.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
While research has not established that a specific tea can cure a common cold, certain teas may help alleviate symptoms like congestion, cough, and sore throat.
—Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
This is the best hope for the tens of millions of children and adults who are waiting for a cure.
—Francis Collins, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2025
But throughout it all, Cohen remained hopeful for a cure.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cure
Verb
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His wounds may heal, but the emotional toll this has to have had is devastating.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement But those centuries of public service have left deep scars, some of which may never heal.—
Kevin Baxter,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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For the educators, that creates an amusing challenge: The Sunny gang isn’t a pack of wayward teenagers waiting for an understanding mentor to show them the light, and their moral failures can’t be rehabilitated with a pep talk.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Auditors also noted the social and educational efforts to rehabilitate prisoners and ready them to re-enter society.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Jan. 2025
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In order to remedy that, her nonprofit and Howdy Homemade entered into a franchise agreement to open a local store — with more to come.—
Jenna Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
17 Jan. 2025
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The settlement is one of several steps that the Biden administration has taken to remedy the effects of policies felt by L.G.B.T.Q. service members for decades.—
Aishvarya Kavi,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Repairs can be costly, and damage can take months to fix.—
Sarah Dean,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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Physicists attempted to fix this by essentially adding a new parameter to the equations and setting that parameter to zero, but that felt a little forced.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
26 Jan. 2025
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Stress: Jennie can help alleviate psychological stress in long-term hospital patients.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
Fox News,
24 Jan. 2025
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With no viable options for a second scorer to take the load off of Curry, getting either Vucevic or Turner will help alleviate the scoring burden and with lineup versatility.—
Jannelle Moore,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Assisting them with the paperwork for financial assistance can relieve some of their stress.—
Julie Scott, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP,
Verywell Health,
27 Jan. 2025
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When a man in a suburb of the Greek city of Thessaloniki found an almost meter-tall decapitated body wrapped in a bag in a trash can, he was probably relieved it was made of marble.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Cure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cure. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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