as in irreversible
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone
irreparable damage to the car
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Recent Examples of irreparable
Difficulty working through conflict with those close to us can cause irreparable harm to families and relationships.
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Richard Balkin, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
The reputational loss that the United States has suffered is consequential, and possibly irreparable in the next decade or so.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Duke says Mensah transferring would cause irreparable harm, meaning a kind of harm that monetary damages can’t fix.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The current tariff battle, however, threatens irreparable harm to the alliance, representing its worst schism in its nearly 80-year history.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for irreparable
Richard Balkin, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
The reputational loss that the United States has suffered is consequential, and possibly irreparable in the next decade or so.
—Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Duke says Mensah transferring would cause irreparable harm, meaning a kind of harm that monetary damages can’t fix.
—Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 Jan. 2026
The current tariff battle, however, threatens irreparable harm to the alliance, representing its worst schism in its nearly 80-year history.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for irreparable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreparable
Adjective
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According to the authors, the findings explain why many intimate symbiotic relationships are irreversible.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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Until now, identifying what liquid surrounds a specimen required opening the jar, risking evaporation, contamination, and irreversible damage.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Many of the country’s top psychiatric groups warn that there is no empirical standard for determining whether a mental-health condition is irremediable.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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The cases in Blair’s book, however gruesome, catalogue methods that our species has used to manage terror, sorrow, and disbelief in the face of the irremediable and unpredictable arrival of death.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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This dreamscape of the island, like that of the jungle, illuminates in children’s literature a sense of utopia and longing about childhood as a not-quite-place, situated in an irretrievable past-yet-future, while at the same time rooted in an anti-utopian logic of adulthood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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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
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