irreversible

Example Sentences

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"Especially in cities and in places with low knowledge about balanced diets, a price shock can worsen the quality of nutrition such that the consequences are long term and irreversible."

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

In Ukraine, that movement felt faster, heavier, irreversible.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

The accord was criticised by the EU which said it could cause "irreversible" damage to the dwindling North Atlantic mackerel population.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Monaldi Hospital, where he was being treated, said he had suffered a "sudden and irreversible worsening of his clinical condition".

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

Death was irreversible, he suspected, and he began to think he was going to lose.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller