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Recent Examples of unredeemable Our Western inheritance, then: the concept of the deep underground as wasteland, dump, terminus of the unredeemable. Literary Hub, 11 June 2025 The society of Iverson’s youth rendered him an unredeemable thug and jailed him for it as a minor. Marcus Thompson Ii, The Athletic, 22 Nov. 2024 These are characters that sometimes may seem unredeemable. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024 Reynolds portrays Clint Briggs, a supposedly unredeemable business consultant who has his world turned upside down by the Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Ferrell. Robert English, EW.com, 21 Aug. 2023 The most unlikable among them aren’t totally unredeemable. Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023 Her dad was unredeemable. John Anderson, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022 What is left is a closer feeling of closeness to his characters — to ugly, sorrowing, tender, stalwart, ruined, unredeemable people, failing at their lives and yet trying, still, to live them. New York Times, 12 July 2022 Alongside health concerns, steering committee member Alicia Kendrick said that she and other residents are frustrated at how quickly some communities, like Joppa, are thought of as unredeemable. Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unredeemable
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
  • Unwilling to make any declarations about turning his season around, Betts instead declared his season individually irredeemable.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Since, by this point, Nan’s actions seem irredeemable, this is when the big pregnancy news gets revealed.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Other public speakers, like Tabitha Fader, said the reroute would cause irreparable harm if wetlands and rivers were polluted during pipeline construction or in the event of a spill.
    Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 4 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
  • 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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“Unredeemable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unredeemable. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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