irreversible
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This can lead to irreversible changes such as a deeper voice or breast development.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
As a woman tells Mew, “the planet teeters on the brink of an appalling and irreversible alteration.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Yet other, more controversial projects, exacting irreversible change to capital institutions, are facing greater opposition.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
It suggests that no other irreversible power to immunize lurks in the Constitution’s silences.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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