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as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
resigned to the fact that his in-laws are irredeemable practical jokers
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as in irreversible
not capable of being repaired, regained, or undone
the irredeemable loss of innocence that the war brought about
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Recent Examples of irredeemable
This big band take of a song already teetering on irredeemable absurdity, wants to be lush and seductive.
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
The January 6th Capitol riot was seen as an irredeemable scandal.
—Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Unwilling to make any declarations about turning his season around, Betts instead declared his season individually irredeemable.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2025
Since, by this point, Nan’s actions seem irredeemable, this is when the big pregnancy news gets revealed.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
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Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
The January 6th Capitol riot was seen as an irredeemable scandal.
—Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Unwilling to make any declarations about turning his season around, Betts instead declared his season individually irredeemable.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 9 Aug. 2025
Since, by this point, Nan’s actions seem irredeemable, this is when the big pregnancy news gets revealed.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for irredeemable
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From what looked like a hopeless position just a few weeks ago, the subscribers are now off the bottom of the table and gearing up for a potential title challenge.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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And if the hypotheticals are not enough to dissuade, history is littered with teams trading away their future for immediate glories, seeing their plans implode, and being left with a ruinous future that becomes a hopeless present while another team reaps the benefits.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2026
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According to the authors, the findings explain why many intimate symbiotic relationships are irreversible.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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Until now, identifying what liquid surrounds a specimen required opening the jar, risking evaporation, contamination, and irreversible damage.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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The case has deeply embarrassed the royal family, especially his mother, who suffers from an incurable lung illness and who is torn between her role as mother and future queen.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Authorities in Canada are weighing the case of Claire Brosseau, a 48-year-old woman with severe mental illness who hopes to secure medical help in ending her life but whose own psychiatrists are split over whether her illness is indeed incurable.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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Rattling off the potential for irreparable harm, the attorney said that demobilizing the project and then restarting it would significantly delay the overall timeline of the critical infrastructure project, or even torpedo the whole thing.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2026
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With import‑export activities stalled, especially in the garment sector, the country faces irreparable damage.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
5 Feb. 2026
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But the Coop had one thing that failed cooperatives didn’t: Joe Holtz, a gregarious 22-year-old from Sheepshead Bay with a mind for numbers and an incorrigible idealism.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 2025
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Irredeemable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/irredeemable. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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