irreversible
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
The accord was criticised by the EU which said it could cause "irreversible" damage to the dwindling North Atlantic mackerel population.
From Barron's
Monaldi Hospital, where he was being treated, said he had suffered a "sudden and irreversible worsening of his clinical condition".
From BBC
The clinician adds that the condition can't currently be detected until the patient has started developing weakness - at which point there has been "irreversible loss" of nerve cells in the brain and spine.
From BBC
“The position of our state was firmly consolidated as an irreversible one,” he said, likely referring to North Korea’s nuclear stockpile.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
