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Recent Examples of irredeemable Could an irredeemable loner doomed to a life peering from the outside in do this? Alison Herman, Variety, 26 May 2025 Ambassador Nolting and many defense officials considered Diem an imperfect yet effective leader, while most in the State Department deemed Diem’s administration irredeemable. Made By History, Time, 30 Apr. 2025 In Alex Gibney's 2024 documentary David Chase: Wise Guy and The Sopranos, Chase reveals he was warned by producers not to show Tony getting his hands dirty for fear of making his lead irredeemable. Griff Griffin, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024 Then came Trump, and the irredeemable enjoyed sudden redemption. Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017 See All Example Sentences for irredeemable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irredeemable
Adjective
  • Nearly half of them reported feeling down, depressed or hopeless and experiencing sleep disturbances.
    Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The movie stars Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette in a story about a hopeless romantic who makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet, diagnoses often come only after irreversible damage occurs.
    Somnath Banerjee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The lake, which spans northwestern Iran, has been reduced to a fraction of its former size, with officials and scientists warning of potentially irreversible ecological and human consequences.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Recent reports about his illness had suggested the cancer was incurable, but manageable.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2025
  • However, the statute doesn’t address incurable violations, such as, for example, unsafe driving, raucous disturbances, or misuse of common facilities.
    Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The suit claims irreparable harm and asks the court for immediate injunctive relief shutting the passes down.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In its lawsuit, Ryan LLC argued that the noncompete ban would inflict irreparable harm by enabling its employees to leave for the competition, potentially taking with them valuable skills and information gained on the job.
    Andrea Hsu, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Who was this alien observer, whose gaze made me into a (slightly) better person, whose gaze (slightly) reduced my incorrigible self-centeredness?
    Michael W. Clune, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025

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“Irredeemable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irredeemable. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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