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as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
believed that there was no such thing as an unrecoverable criminal
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as in irreparable
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone
the flood caused unrecoverable damage to our home
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Recent Examples of unrecoverable
Internal polling can even be used to push opponents to drop out, showing unrecoverable levels of support.
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Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
Faced with unrecoverable job losses in agriculture, small-town leaders courted manufacturers with subsidies, obliging regulations, and a cheap, non-unionized workforce.
Manufacturers, accepting this invitation, industrialized the rural landscape.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
His remains were declared unrecoverable and were interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii with other unknowns from the Korean War.
—Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
The last time the death toll changed was Aug. 21, the day that President Biden visited Lahaina, a span of time that reflects the new phase of the recovery effort, as well as the likelihood that many people’s bodies were reduced to unrecoverable ash.
—Tim Arango and Lisa L. Schell, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
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Leah Askarinam, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
Faced with unrecoverable job losses in agriculture, small-town leaders courted manufacturers with subsidies, obliging regulations, and a cheap, non-unionized workforce.
Manufacturers, accepting this invitation, industrialized the rural landscape.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
His remains were declared unrecoverable and were interred at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii with other unknowns from the Korean War.
—Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
The last time the death toll changed was Aug. 21, the day that President Biden visited Lahaina, a span of time that reflects the new phase of the recovery effort, as well as the likelihood that many people’s bodies were reduced to unrecoverable ash.
—Tim Arango and Lisa L. Schell, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrecoverable
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By that point, most American passengers had reached a point of hopeless exhaustion.Opheli Garcia Lawlor, Travel + Leisure, 10 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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The damage done by Biden-Harris is not irrecoverable.Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2024
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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
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But, if Congress insists on standing by as the Justice Department becomes politicized, with some members even encouraging movement in that direction already, the pardon power should be invoked to prevent an irreversible assault on the rule of law.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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This act, like burning one’s ships, speaks to the irreversible choice to move forward without the option of retreating, of charting a new course and never going back, and the act of giving oneself to a cause or belief.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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Come See Me in the Good Light / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Ryan White, Producers: Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, Stef Willen) –– Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis.Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Unrecoverable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrecoverable. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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