Examples of irretrievably

• The heart attack left her irretrievably brain damaged.

• The trial was irretrievably tainted by alleged lies.

• She felt their marriage was irretrievably broken.

• On the other hand, the initial state of the right program is irretrievably lost after the measurement.

• Historical mindedness disenchants before it re-enchants; it presumes that whole forms have been irretrievably broken (p. 217).

• The old social order had irretrievably broken down but a new equilibrium had not yet been reached.

• A population that irretrievably depletes its own resources must of course perish with them.

• Furthermore, the exclusivity of intellectuals in their 'public ' heyday, so jealously guarded - as demonstrated in the recent studies considered here - has been irretrievably eroded.