irreversible

Example Sentences

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Nonetheless, the degradation of the Islamic Republic as a military and nuclear power has been enormous and is likely irreversible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

She said "irreversible suffering has been imposed on our family".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

By that point, significant and irreversible damage may already have occurred.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

U.S. companies, assuming the trend would be irreversible, made multibillion-dollar investments in the first decades of the 2000s to buy up rivals at premium prices.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

Death was irreversible, he suspected, and he began to think he was going to lose.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller