terminally ill

idiom

: having a disease that cannot be cured and will cause death

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Adams previously advocated for passage of the law, which allows doctors to prescribe an aid-in-dying drug to certain terminally ill patients. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 20 May 2025 Trump also worked with the Koch orbit on a massive rewrite of the criminal justice system and Koch-minded activists cheered on Trump-era efforts to let terminally ill patients access medical treatments that had not yet fully cleared FDA vetting. Philip Elliott, Time, 2 May 2025 Friends of Karen began when Sheila Petersen rallied community support to help the MacInnes family care for their terminally ill daughter, Karen. Friends Of Karen, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 In his new origin story, Dr. Victor Fries suffers an accident while treating his cryogenically frozen and terminally ill wife, Nora. Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for terminally ill

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“Terminally ill.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terminally%20ill. Accessed 30 May. 2025.

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