How to Use irremediable in a Sentence

irremediable

adjective
  • There was an irremediable split between the two sides of the family.
  • And there follows then a letter that is full of its radical, irremediable, irredeemable flaws.
    — Evgenia Peretz, vanityfair.com, 29 Mar. 2017
  • And there follows then a letter that is full of its radical, irremediable, irredeemable flaws.
    — Evgenia Peretz, Vanities, 19 Apr. 2017
  • This is not a picture of irremediable structural dysfunction that will lead inexorably to collapse.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The mayor has heard hundreds of stories about irremediable loss and fears like people had never experienced.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • Some of that plurality surely resent the idea of reparations for slavery as a badge of an irremediable damage.
    — George Will, National Review, 16 June 2019
  • Some of that plurality surely resent the idea of reparations for slavery as a badge of an irremediable damage.
    — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 15 June 2019
  • Society must educate our youth before the ravages of drugs become irremediable.
    — WSJ, 20 June 2018
  • Many of the country’s top psychiatric groups warn that there is no empirical standard for determining whether a mental-health condition is irremediable.
    — Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In many cases mental illness lays a persistent, tragic, and irremediable burden on individuals and their families who do not have the means for private mental health care.
    — courant.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • Any RVs at the encampment found to have long-term rat infestations will be classified as irremediable biohazards and destroyed, according to the notice.
    — Kate Talerico, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The cases in Blair’s book, however gruesome, catalogue methods that our species has used to manage terror, sorrow, and disbelief in the face of the irremediable and unpredictable arrival of death.
    — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Accordingly, Ulbricht should be re-sentenced before a different judge to avoid the irremediable taint from the improper factors the Court considered.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2016
  • Written by the Duce in collaboration with a group of scholars, the manifesto established an irremediable divide between Jews and Italians.
    — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 20 Jan. 2017
  • The leaden weight of an irremediable idleness descended upon General Feraud, who having no resources within himself sank into a state of awe-inspiring hebetude.
    — Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Though Harvard’s governing body initially stood behind Gay after what some considered a tepid response to the student groups’ statement, the plagiarism allegations proved irremediable.
    — Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The animating conviction that America’s economic, governmental, and judicial institutions are irremediable distinguishes Portland protesters from others around the country.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2020

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