irreversible
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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
"He said it was irreversible and that he will never get Agrofert back. Which is not true because the fund enables that," he added.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
Hormones can be prescribed to help a person develop characteristics associated with their preferred gender rather than their biological sex, and may produce irreversible changes like a deeper voice or breast growth.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
U.S. companies, assuming the trend would be irreversible, made multibillion-dollar investments in the first decades of the 2000s to buy up rivals at premium prices.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
Space hurls outward, falconswift, mounting like an irreversible injustice, a final disease.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.