irreversible

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IPF is a chronic, progressive lung disease characterized by irreversible scarring and stiffening of lung tissue.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

She said "irreversible suffering has been imposed on our family".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

By that point, significant and irreversible damage may already have occurred.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

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 • Mar. 5, 2026

The existence of radiation from black holes seems to imply that gravitational collapse is not as final and irreversible as we once thought.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking