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Recent Examples of irrecoverable Broadly speaking, this is probably not irrecoverable damage to the ecosystem. Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 19 July 2025 Aviation experts have said a preliminary report from India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) raised questions over whether one of the pilots of Air India flight 171 cut off fuel to the Boeing 787's engines seconds after takeoff, leading to an irrecoverable situation. Dan Catchpole, USA Today, 18 July 2025 Aviation experts have said a preliminary report from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) raised questions over whether one of the pilots of Air India flight 171 cut off fuel to the Boeing 787’s engines seconds after takeoff, leading to an irrecoverable situation. Reuters, CNN Money, 16 July 2025 Crestfallen fans have begun demanding refunds for hundreds of dollars in ticket purchases to defray irrecoverable travel and lodging costs. Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 11 July 2025 Customs Duty, which is irrecoverable. Import VAT, which can be reclaimed, provided correct steps are taken. Robert Marchant, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025 The contents of the time capsule may become irrecoverable. Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025 Half of it goes to the nearby Hardy River, in an attempt to revive ecosystems that were thought to be irrecoverable. Geraldine Castro, Wired News, 23 Apr. 2025 During the Kursk operation, the enemy has already lost over 38,000 soldiers in this single direction alone, with approximately 15,000 of them irrecoverable losses. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrecoverable
Adjective
  • Claressa Shields is a three-division world champion boxer and also a hopeless romantic.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Then, as the Steelers swarmed, Maye gave in to his playmaking impulse again — the same that had just kept the Patriots afloat — and lost the ball trying a hopeless pitch to TreVeyon Henderson.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Conversely, improper storage can lead to irreversible damage from moisture, pests, or accidents.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Persistent inflammation can lead to fibrosis, which may progress to cirrhosis, a severe and irreversible scarring of the liver.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Alcaraz broke the Italian twice, winning the set with an incredible backhand flick from what looked like an irretrievable position and cupping his ear.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • Choi seems to be exploring, if subtly, the limitless number of paths a person can take, the manifold consequences of choices that seem inconsequential, the ways interpersonal disputes can widen into irretrievable losses, the awkward intersections of agency and fate: If only this, if not for that.
    Book Marks June 5, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Companies that fail to establish rigorous evaluation frameworks risk not only product failures but also legal liability, regulatory scrutiny and irreparable damage to user trust.
    Sebastian Crossa, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That somehow or other, all of a sudden, their request for a merger or for some other transaction was now slowed for a year or two years or three years, causing irreparable harm, but with no recourse that the company would have.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Multi-year studies were interrupted and often unrecoverable, loss of support personnel to manage animal facilities and lack of resources to purchase mice, inability to purchase routine critical supplies and equipment.
    D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, in the U.S., projects are litigated and delayed, often to make the project economics untenable and the investment unrecoverable.
    Anna Broughel, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Doctors quickly diagnosed Shinae with a cancerous astrocytoma, and told her that it was considered incurable because of where it's located in her brain.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Currently, the first dose is given within 24 hours of birth because hepatitis B — an incurable infection that can lead to liver disease, cancer and death — can be transmitted from mother to child during delivery.
    Aria Bendix, NBC news, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Irrecoverable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrecoverable. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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