as in irreversible
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone
irreparable damage to the car
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Recent Examples of irreparable
Because making contact at this point runs the risk of scratching the sensor and doing irreparable damage.
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Jacob Little, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Sure, Baltimore’s relationship with the Raiders may have sustained irreparable damage, but general managers, agents and players gravitate toward the best deals, as Hendrickson did Wednesday.
—Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Angry local opposition has sprouted against dozens of the behemoth data centers amid fears of rising electricity costs and irreparable damage to their communities.
—Marc Levy, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
This is a harsher version of Rooster’s insistence that anyone can be rehabilitated, one that acknowledges that some damage is irreparable, and that the people who benefit from infinite patience and forgiveness are usually men of privilege.
—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
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Jacob Little, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Sure, Baltimore’s relationship with the Raiders may have sustained irreparable damage, but general managers, agents and players gravitate toward the best deals, as Hendrickson did Wednesday.
—Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
Angry local opposition has sprouted against dozens of the behemoth data centers amid fears of rising electricity costs and irreparable damage to their communities.
—Marc Levy, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
This is a harsher version of Rooster’s insistence that anyone can be rehabilitated, one that acknowledges that some damage is irreparable, and that the people who benefit from infinite patience and forgiveness are usually men of privilege.
—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irreparable
Adjective
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Advocates say the impact is irreversible.—
Karen Morfitt,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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But military action that goes badly has often imperiled presidents and brought irreversible political consequences.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
20 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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This is why the tragedy of Gaza seems definitive and irremediable: because a state and an army that pretend to be the expression of that culture, as the heirs of that history, have betrayed the Jewish intellectual contribution to modern civilization.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Mar. 2026
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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
Adjective
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For Isaac, the film also captures something irretrievable.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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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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“Irreparable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irreparable. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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