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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
  • Claressa Shields is a three-division world champion boxer and also a hopeless romantic.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Then, as the Steelers swarmed, Maye gave in to his playmaking impulse again — the same that had just kept the Patriots afloat — and lost the ball trying a hopeless pitch to TreVeyon Henderson.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This scandal will do irreversible damage to the monarchy if Andrew and Sarah are continuously seen out and about with the royal family, whether in private or not.
    Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Conversely, improper storage can lead to irreversible damage from moisture, pests, or accidents.
    Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 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
  • Companies that fail to establish rigorous evaluation frameworks risk not only product failures but also legal liability, regulatory scrutiny and irreparable damage to user trust.
    Sebastian Crossa, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • That somehow or other, all of a sudden, their request for a merger or for some other transaction was now slowed for a year or two years or three years, causing irreparable harm, but with no recourse that the company would have.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Doctors quickly diagnosed Shinae with a cancerous astrocytoma, and told her that it was considered incurable because of where it's located in her brain.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 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 5 Oct. 2025.

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