potential cure
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cura potencial
- The team announced a potential cure for a rare genetic disorder after years of research.
- potential cure for cancer
- potential cure for Parkinson
- potential cure or treatment
And we're talking about potential cures, not simply symptoms, dealing with symptoms.
- And we're talking about potential cures, not simply symptoms, dealing with symptoms.
- And and maybe, just maybe right, we could contribute to potential cures and treatments.
Examples
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And we're talking about potential cures, not simply symptoms.
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I think what, uh, what Dr. King means is that the disease, along with a potential cure, is of interest to a vast number of people- a cross section-
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And and maybe, just maybe right, we could contribute to potential cures and treatments.
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I think the only potential cure to this problem is for people to better recognize when someone is making a fact-based argument and when someone is making a value-based argument.
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Recent studies suggest that a new drug may be a potential cure for Alzheimer's disease.
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Researchers are excited about a potential cure for diabetes discovered in clinical trials.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a treatment that might be able to cure a disease' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'potential' (possible, not yet actual) with 'cure' (a medicine or therapy that eliminates disease). This simple adjective + noun composition follows standard semantic rules and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase potential cure gives a simple picture: potential means 'possible ability' and cure means something that 'makes someone well', so a potential cure is a treatment that may be able to fix a disease but still needs more proof.