irretrievable
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"Irretrievable damage has been done to the country's reputation," said Norris Pritam, an Indian journalist who has covered many Olympics and Asian Games.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2010
Irretrievable, his yielding and his shame; irrecoverable, the conscious rectitude bartered so cheaply.
From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George
Now, the Irrecoverable and Irretrievable Humiliations that have lately befallen the Turkish Power, are but so many Declarations of the second Woe passing away.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton
Irretrievable damage must have resulted from this edict, but fortunately it was disobeyed in Rome and ignored elsewhere.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of
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