incorrigible
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As an incorrigible collector of classical music recordings for 30 years, I confess I have never thought of the National Symphony Orchestra’s appearance on an album cover a reason to buy it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Having signed a bipartisan package of bills, Newsom will ask voters to approve billions of dollars aimed at alleviating California’s seemingly incorrigible homelessness crisis.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
“He always thought I was an incorrigible optimist. So he was genuinely astonished,” Bird would later say.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2023
There’s that insulin analogy again, she’s nothing if not incorrigible, that Marie.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2023
A recurrent theme was of “hard-boiled, but not incorrigible inmates who somehow came around under the compassionate, but firm hand of the warden.”
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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