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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
  • In a time when the suffering and seemingly hopeless prospects of America’s poor are known to all who have eyes to see, the only fig leaf available to hide the obscenity of this bill is the old partisan charge of waste, fraud and abuse.
    Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
  • Valentine, Texas, stamps 10,000+ love letters each year For more than three decades, the small-town Valentine Post Office — also known as the Love Station — has processed thousands of love letters from hopeless romantics around the world.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Immediate, irreparable harm When the government creates a policy that might violate the Constitution or federal law, affected people can sue in federal court to stop it.
    Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 27 June 2025
  • Their outcomes are far from certain, and the cases might be decided only after irreparable damage has been done.
    Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Finally, after more than a month of agony, her allergist diagnosed her with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) — an incurable condition marked by hives that last six weeks or longer, with no definitive cause or trigger.
    Diane Herbst, People.com, 11 July 2025
  • Due to the contagious nature of the incurable disease, when it's detected, standard practice is to humanely kill all affected and exposed poultry.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The usual one that pops into people’s heads is that fire seems to be an irreversible invention.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Socotra needs to implement similar protections before damage becomes irreversible, Van Damme said.
    Shane Farrell, NBC news, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • This prevents the irretrievable loss of expertise during transitions.
    Nick Hart, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025

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“Irremediable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irremediable. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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