irrecoverable
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There is always something theatrical about politics, especially in countries like Hungary, where memories of a glorious but irrecoverable past dominate the public imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
They "used to go to places and bring back plants from areas where those forests are no longer there", making those replanted at the Kyiv garden susceptible to "irrecoverable losses".
From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026
State Historic Park, is irrecoverable due to toxification from the fire.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025
So - fittingly - it seems that nostalgia for his younger self may have played a role in the driver's love of the song, which is itself a yearning for an irrecoverable past.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2023
This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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