irrevocably
in a way that can never be reversed, undone, or canceled; permanently:The huge manuscript is unbound looseleaf and there are no page numbers, so if you drop it the whole thing is irrevocably scrambled.
Origin of irrevocably
1Other words from irrevocably
- non·ir·rev·o·cab·ly, adverb
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How to use irrevocably in a sentence
Freedom’s end—the ultimate oppression—is when government takes a life, putting all its power into irrevocably taking away someone else’s.
Sebastian Junger: What We Talk About When We Talk About Freedom | Nathan S. Webster | May 31, 2021 | The Daily BeastRather than directly acting on genes—irrevocably dicing away or swapping genetic letters—the new CRISPR variant targets the biological machinery that naturally turns genes on or off.
A New CRISPR Tool Flips Genes On and Off Like a Light Switch | Shelly Fan | April 27, 2021 | Singularity HubHere are the ways that It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot irrevocably changed the hip-hop landscape.
How DMX's It's Dark and Hell Is Hot Changed the Course of Hip-Hop Forever | Andrew R. Chow | April 9, 2021 | TimeThe way the sector makes money is going to irrevocably change over the next two years.
‘Nothing makes sense anymore’: What’s driving ad tech’s latest consolidation wave | Seb Joseph | February 23, 2021 | DigidayAt the top of 2020, the coronavirus crisis, an event of seismic proportions, irrevocably changed the worlds of retail, commerce, media and marketing.
Digiday Resilience Awards winners: How brands protected their workers and gave back to the world in a time of crisis | Digiday Awards | October 8, 2020 | Digiday
Just when the Putins left the Soviet Union, that country began to change drastically and irrevocably.
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Radicalized Putin | Masha Gessen | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDespite the one concussion combined, their careers have been irrevocably influenced by injury.
The Injuries That Made Peyton Manning and Tom Brady | Ben Teitelbaum | January 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAlso, the long running fan favorite , the Ethiopian Immigration, was “irrevocably” canceled… for the fourth time.
That new cloud-computing technology will irrevocably change the community banking system.
If you have to ask whether Star Trek is like Star Wars, you are horribly, irrevocably misguided.
‘Star Trek’ for Dummies: Get Ready for ‘Into Darkness’ With Our Primer | Sujay Kumar | May 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNow that all is irrevocably ended, they a rise naturally out of what has taken place.
Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) | Alexandre Dumas, filsTo gain his Dragon Maid,—to know that in this life she was irrevocably his,—that was Tatsu's one conscious thought.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaJohn just slipped out of my grasp—Zloomph and all—and was gone—completely and irrevocably gone.
The Holes and John Smith | Edward W. LudwigThere is no proposition of which it can be asserted that every human mind must eternally and irrevocably believe it.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillAll that thou hast loved, to which thou hast given thyself irrevocably, is falling, going to pieces.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems | Ivan Turgenev
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