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Recent Examples of irrecoverable The damage done by Biden-Harris is not irrecoverable. Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2024 In Germany, bad debt relief requires that the debt is considered irrecoverable, assessed based on the individual facts of each case. Aleksandra Bal, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024 The resulting jet of propellant that vented into space acted as an impromptu rocket that could have pushed the spacecraft into an irrecoverable tumble. Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024 The West in fact faces a crucial choice right now: support Ukraine so that its leaders can defend their territory and prepare for a 2025 offensive or cede an irrecoverable advantage to Russia. Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2024 Two of these horses were euthanized on the day of the Derby itself after suffering irrecoverable injuries, their trainers told The Associated Press. Justin Klawans, The Week, 9 May 2023 One line of thinking is that Russian forces would execute a swift, overwhelming strike meant to inflict massive and irrecoverable losses on the Ukrainian military that would spur a political capitulation (and possibly a change in government) in Kyiv. Nolan Peterson, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022 Navalny has mounted a series of legal appeals against his poor treatment, but video camera evidence to prove his case has been unavailable, with officials claiming software failures, power surges and irrecoverable data, according to the report. Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023 Joe Ingles, who got his 10th start of the season Wednesday with Donovan Mitchell in the NBA’s concussion protocol, acknowledged that the Jazz are going through a tough stretch at the moment, but also tried to convey the notion that the team is not in some irrecoverable downward spiral. Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for irrecoverable
Adjective
  • By that point, most American passengers had reached a point of hopeless exhaustion.
    Opheli Garcia Lawlor, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Eugene is able to carry on after his romance with Lee, while Lee is confined to a life of falling into the same miserable cycles of loneliness and addiction, a feeling manifested by the snake shedding a hopeless tear.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Not helping matters: Damian — who unbeknownst to Martha is still in Ingrid’s life — calmly informs Ingrid that the damage to the planet due to climate change is irreversible.
    Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • More tests by a liver specialist revealed Sanchez had Stage 4 cirrhosis of the liver, which is irreversible even with medication.
    Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 15 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Once deleted, users can also manually empty the trash folder, making those files and communications irretrievable and truly deleted from the online platform.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Going into Comic-Con, Marvel really did need to reaffirm its swagger, to prove 2023 was a momentary ebb rather than the start of an irretrievable decline.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 28 July 2024
Adjective
  • Science & Medicine Why RFK Jr. nomination sets off alarms among many public health specialists Nov. 16, 2024 Bhattacharya was one of three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, an October 2020 open letter maintaining that lockdowns were causing irreparable harm.
    Carla K. Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Bhattacharya was one of three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, an October 2020 open letter maintaining that lockdowns were causing irreparable harm.
    Compiled byDemocrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Come See Me in the Good Light (Director-Producer: Ryan White, Producers: Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen) –– Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The 72-year-old former reality television star revealed thathe is currently battling an incurable and slow form of bone marrow cancer known as Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia in a new interview with People Magazine on Wednesday, December 11.
    Lexi Lane, SPIN, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Without access to the device, the conversation contents are unrecoverable.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • 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.
    Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024

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“Irrecoverable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irrecoverable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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