to find a cure
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- phrasal verb
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encontrar una cura
- Doctors are tirelessly working to find a cure for this debilitating disease.
- find a cure for cancer
And as yet, we haven't really found a cure for long COVID.
- And as yet, we haven't really found a cure for long COVID.
- All that said, will we ever find a cure for Ms.
- What we're going to fund wholly and solely to help find a cure for dementia.
- Well, I've just done some calculations and I have found a cure for the disease that your your mother has.
- I hope that through the work of the foundation that we've created to find a cure for follicular lymphoma, that we will find cure or cures in my lifetime.
- Basically you were trying to find a cure.
Examples
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Doctors have the situation well in hand... ...and are working day and night to find a cure.
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Someday in the near future, we might even find a cure.
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So what we need to do is we need to find a cure and we need to find a way to prevent the disease.
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People are saying, do people want us not to find a cure for cancer?
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We need to find a cure.
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We can find a cure for this.
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One day, I hope that researchers can find a cure for cancer.
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I'm currently trying to find a cure for cancer.
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And as yet, we haven't really found a cure for long COVID.
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I hope that through the work of the foundation that we've created to find a cure for follicular lymphoma, that we will find cure or cures in my lifetime.
Synonyms
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2.4
Make someone healthy again by removing a disease
Antonyms
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to discover an effective treatment' is directly and compositionally built from 'find' (to discover) + 'cure' (a remedy), with the article 'a' carrying no idiomatic effect. This is a common, cross-linguistic verb + noun construction, so an average B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the overall meaning.
Etymology
The phrase find a cure comes from the image of doctors and scientists searching like detectives to find a single cure that will make sick people well. So it means 'to discover a treatment that works' for a disease.