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Recent Examples of irremediable For example, if a package containing plasma is left outside during extreme weather conditions, like 20 degrees below freezing in Boston or 115-degree heat in Arizona, the contents could suffer irremediable damage that renders them unsafe for use. Guy Yehiav, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024 Though Harvard’s governing body initially stood behind Gay after what some considered a tepid response to the student groups’ statement, the plagiarism allegations proved irremediable. Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024 This is not a picture of irremediable structural dysfunction that will lead inexorably to collapse. Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023 The mayor has heard hundreds of stories about irremediable loss and fears like people had never experienced. Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2023 See All Example Sentences for irremediable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irremediable
Adjective
  • To summarize, the protagonist, lost in hopeless days, eventually stumbles upon a deserted dance hall.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The movie, which premiered in the midnights section of the Toronto International Film Festival, follows a hopeless romantic who makes a Faustian bargain to win his crush’s heart.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Many residents said the flooding reached the ceiling of their homes, and so much — from mattresses to appliances to cars — was now irreparable.
    Cristopher Rogel Blanquet, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • For instance, an injunction to stop a company from polluting a lake is premised on the idea that damage to a lake and the life in it is irreparable.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • According to the Cleveland Clinic, LMD is an incurable condition in which cancer cells spread from an advanced cancer to the cerebrospinal fluid and the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • With the climate, these points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Hospitals are also reporting rapid-onset blindness, irreversible comas and organ failure within hours of ingestion.
    Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 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

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“Irremediable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irremediable. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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