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Recent Examples of irrecoverable 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 This kind of situation occurs when irrecoverable past investments drive decisions, even when those costs are irrelevant to future outcomes. Shanna Apitz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024 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 This kind of situation occurs when irrecoverable past investments drive decisions, even when those costs are irrelevant to future outcomes. Shanna Apitz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024 The damage done by Biden-Harris is not irrecoverable. Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrecoverable
Adjective
  • Those nurses never stopped fighting for Mattie, even as her situation seemed hopeless.
    Erin Clack, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • While critical gaps in testing still remain, innovation has ignited a diagnostic boom that has transformed the AIDS fight from hopeless to winnable.
    Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • His cause of death was listed as a stroke followed by irreversible cardiac arrest.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 15 May 2025
  • Without recurring care, many patients will experience harmful setbacks that could lead to hospitalization and irreversible damage that reduces their quality of life and life expectancy.
    Dan Mccarty, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Adjective
  • No fault did not require blame allowing a divorce if one spouse claimed irreconcilable differences or irretrievable breakdown against the other.
    Patricia Fersch, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Lawmakers warn that evidence critical to future war crimes investigations may be irretrievable.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The groups are asking the human rights commission to order precautionary measures, basically an emergency action to prevent irreparable harm.
    Marcos Alemán, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
  • The loss of a Soldier is always an irreparable tragedy.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • In 1952, she was diagnosed with an illness doctors said was incurable.
    Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2025
Adjective
  • An older idea of Russia that has not yet been destroyed is taking revenge on new, innocent generations who are sacrificing their lives in pursuit of unrecoverable greatness.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The damaged flight data recorder had been deemed unrecoverable for data extraction by South Korean authorities, who sent it to the United States for analysis at the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board laboratory.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune Asia, 11 Jan. 2025

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“Irrecoverable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrecoverable. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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