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irreplaceable

[ir-i-pley-suh-buhl] / ˌɪr ɪˈpleɪ sə bəl /


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The weakening of America’s Protestant work ethic, to use a contested but irreplaceable phrase, is a complicated story, but you could trace its beginnings to the 1960s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

But it is copper, now an irreplaceable metal for the economy, that has become the object of global strategic contention.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Helium plays an irreplaceable part in the manufacturing process for semiconductor chips and Qatar supplies a third of the global output.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

One player cannot replace Gareth Bale – Wales' greatest is simply irreplaceable – but Harry Wilson is giving the impossible job a pretty good go.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

For seven years the two friends had been inseparable, each, by virtue of the rarity of similar and equal sensibilities, irreplaceable to the other.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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