unrecoverable
adjective
un·re·cov·er·able
ˌən-ri-ˈkə-və-rə-bəl 
-ˈkəv-rə-
1
: unable to be recovered, recaptured, or regained : hopelessly lost : irrecoverable
unrecoverable loans
2
: unable to be corrected : irremediable
an unrecoverable error/failure
an airplane in an unrecoverable spin
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Examples of unrecoverable in a Sentence
believed that there was no such thing as an unrecoverable criminal
the flood caused unrecoverable damage to our home
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This means that once a PCC server is rebooted, no data is retained and, as an additional precaution, the entire system volume is cryptographically unrecoverable.
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Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Someone who represents unrecoverable catastrophe, frankly, in my view.
—ABC News, 8 Sep. 2024
Some of this may have been prompted by the First and Second World Wars, which resulted in such multitudes of dead—men whose bodies were often unrecoverable—that the old rituals were no longer tenable.
—Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024
The Pivotal team is aware, however, that just one crash might render the company’s trajectory unrecoverable, and potential customers are expected to complete a two-week program at its training center.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Someone who represents unrecoverable catastrophe, frankly, in my view.
—ABC News, 8 Sep. 2024
Some of this may have been prompted by the First and Second World Wars, which resulted in such multitudes of dead—men whose bodies were often unrecoverable—that the old rituals were no longer tenable.
—Cody Delistraty, The New Yorker, 22 June 2024
The Pivotal team is aware, however, that just one crash might render the company’s trajectory unrecoverable, and potential customers are expected to complete a two-week program at its training center.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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“Unrecoverable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unrecoverable. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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