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Examples of irrevocable in a Sentence
She has made an irrevocable decision.
Recent Examples of irrevocable from the Web
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That seems to be baseball's permanent, irrevocable stance.
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Since the Supreme Court’s landmark Afroyim v. Rusk decision in 1967, American citizenship is generally irrevocable unless its bearer explicitly chooses to forsake it.
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Refusal to pay after seven days was promised to result in the permanent loss of data via irrevocable encryption.
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Last year the city contributed $2.1 million from the general fund to an irrevocable pension trust to help pay down pension liabilities.
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A cynical listener has to wonder if the album constitutes a full-throated denunciation of masculine entitlement or just canny damage control, a way of repackaging the band’s irrevocable white maleness for an increasingly woke listenership.
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Rather than leaving heirs an IRA laden with taxes, the life-insurance proceeds are free of estate tax if the insurance is owned by an irrevocable life-insurance trust.
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That control will pass to an irrevocable trust after Mr. Redstone dies or is declared incompetent.
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Why, should states wait until the onslaught of Kiddy Porn Street- type programs have already done irrevocable harm?
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Did You Know?
Irrevocable has a formal sound to it and is often used in legal contexts. Irrevocable trusts are trust funds that cannot be dissolved by the people who created them (the other kind is a revocable trust). An irrevocable credit is an absolute obligation from a bank to provide credit to a customer. Irrevocable gifts, under U.S. tax law, are gifts that are given by one living person to another and can't be reclaimed by the giver. But the word isn't always legal; we've all had to make irrevocable decisions, decisions that commit us absolutely to something.
Origin and Etymology of irrevocable
Middle English, from Latin irrevocabilis, from in- + revocabilis revocable
IRREVOCABLE Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of irrevocable for English Language Learners
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: not capable of being changed : impossible to revoke
IRREVOCABLE Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of irrevocable for Students
: impossible to take away or undo an irrevocable decision
irrevocably
\-blē\ adverbLaw Dictionary
irrevocable
playLegal Definition of irrevocable
: not capable of being revoked the offer was irrevocable for ten days
irrevocability
nounirrevocably
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