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as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
resigned to the fact that his in-laws are irredeemable practical jokers
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as in irreversible
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone
the irredeemable loss of innocence that the war brought about
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Recent Examples of irredeemable
What the fury around her political opinions tells me is that toxic political discourse closely resembles toxic stan culture, both of which are spiritually indebted to toxic sports fandom, the original irredeemable online subculture.
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Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
However, none of this means that knotless braids need to be banished to the far-off lands of irredeemable hair heaven.
—Tayler Adigun, Essence, 9 Oct. 2024
If America is irredeemable, this thinking goes, then justice demands no less than a complete reboot of the country.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
Nor is there a situation that is irredeemable, an experience that is hopeless.
—Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
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Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
However, none of this means that knotless braids need to be banished to the far-off lands of irredeemable hair heaven.
—Tayler Adigun, Essence, 9 Oct. 2024
If America is irredeemable, this thinking goes, then justice demands no less than a complete reboot of the country.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2024
Nor is there a situation that is irredeemable, an experience that is hopeless.
—Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irredeemable
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The battle between parents and tech-savvy children over access to the Internet and apps might seem hopeless.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
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Burns is asked how to avoid feeling hopeless during a stretch like this.Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Nevertheless, the data is a glaring reminder that the planet is inching closer to irreversible damage.Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
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The Japanese Foreign Ministry has warned that the country has until about 2030 before the trend is irreversible.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Still, a year before her record-tying stint at the Olympics, she was diagnosed with two incurable kidney diseases that almost stopped her in her tracks.Rachel Murphy, Health, 8 Jan. 2025
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After he was diagnosed with incurable grade 4 brain cancer in June 2023, Long developed a series of pioneering treatments inspired by melanoma breakthroughs.Janine Henni, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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What To Know In a brief filed with a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., the Justice Department argued that accepting guilty pleas from Mohammed and his co-defendants would cause irreparable harm.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance also argue that even a temporary ban would cause irreparable harm to the platform.Maria Curi, Axios, 7 Jan. 2025
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For those who know Celine, two things repeatedly come to mind: her irrepressible smile and her incorrigible fight.Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
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Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.airmail.news, airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
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