irreparable

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It said there was an “urgent need” to put protective measures in place to prevent “serious and irreparable harm” to the market for general purpose AI assistants, pending Meta’s right of defense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

"For months, the government insisted there was no irreparable harm because businesses could always be made whole through refunds," the Liberty Justice Center said in a statement last week.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

A federal judge recently ordered the administration to provide adequate healthcare and improved access to counsel at the facility, concluding that detainees were likely to “suffer irreparable harm” without court intervention.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

The EU will wait for Meta to formally respond to its findings, and depending on the response, it could impose "interim measures" to prevent Meta from causing "serious and irreparable harm on the market".

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

That their influence was felt powerfully for only two or three centuries is an irreparable loss for all those human beings who lived between the Ionian Awakening and the Italian Renaissance.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan