beyond repair
idiom
: to such an extent that repair is not possible
The car was damaged beyond repair.
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With this latest rant, things may be beyond repair with them.
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Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 30 Apr. 2025
You’re not doomed, and your relationship isn’t broken beyond repair.
—Jourdan Travers, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2025
Purdy put his reporter’s hat back on and dug up that the 38 S. Fifth St. house — which would have sat in the plaza just south of the city council chambers — was demolished after an arson fire damaged it beyond repair.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
All the institutions of the postwar order and prosperity—our great universities, our public-health system, our scientific-research establishment—have been damaged, perhaps beyond repair.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
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Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 30 Apr. 2025
You’re not doomed, and your relationship isn’t broken beyond repair.
—Jourdan Travers, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2025
Purdy put his reporter’s hat back on and dug up that the 38 S. Fifth St. house — which would have sat in the plaza just south of the city council chambers — was demolished after an arson fire damaged it beyond repair.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
All the institutions of the postwar order and prosperity—our great universities, our public-health system, our scientific-research establishment—have been damaged, perhaps beyond repair.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for beyond repair
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“Beyond repair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beyond%20repair. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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