unrecoverable
adjective
un·re·cov·er·able
ˌən-ri-ˈkə-və-rə-bəl 
-ˈkəv-rə-
1
: unable to be recovered, recaptured, or regained : hopelessly lost : irrecoverable
unrecoverable loans
2
: unable to be corrected : irremediable
an unrecoverable error/failure
an airplane in an unrecoverable spin
Examples of unrecoverable in a Sentence
believed that there was no such thing as an unrecoverable criminal
the flood caused unrecoverable damage to our home
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The business also has made Space Shuttle drag parachutes for the orbiter, and parachutes that deploy from the tails of F-22 and F-35 military jets to break them from unrecoverable stalls or spins.
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Pat Maio, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
By the time the offline assay confirmed what the cells were doing, hours had passed, and the batch was unrecoverable.
—Hamid Noori, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
His remains were determined to be unrecoverable in 1956 until new DNA testing led to his homecoming.
—Bri Buckley, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
It was pronounced unrecoverable.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Pat Maio, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
By the time the offline assay confirmed what the cells were doing, hours had passed, and the batch was unrecoverable.
—Hamid Noori, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
His remains were determined to be unrecoverable in 1956 until new DNA testing led to his homecoming.
—Bri Buckley, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
It was pronounced unrecoverable.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for unrecoverable
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“Unrecoverable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unrecoverable. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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