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Princeton's WordNet

  1. irretrievablyadverb

    in an irretrievable manner

    "it is irretrievably lost"

Wiktionary

  1. irretrievablyadverb

    In an irretrievable manner; irrecoverably.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Irretrievablyadverb

    Irreparably; irrecoverably.

    Etymology: from irretrievable.

    It would not defray the charge of the extraction, and therefore must have been all irretrievably lost, and useless to mankind, was it not by this means collected. John Woodward.

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  1. irretrievably

    Irretrievably refers to a situation or condition that is impossible to recover, retrieve, or reverse. It's often used to describe a loss or change that is permanent and cannot be undone.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Irretrievablyadverb

    in an irretrievable manner

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of irretrievably in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of irretrievably in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of irretrievably in a Sentence

  1. Erik Pevernagie:

    Our world has definitely not learned from past mistakes. Communities have disappeared by mismanagement and by rampant destructions of flora and fauna. “Short time vision” made us irretrievably step out of nature. (Why step out of nature )

  2. Johann von Goethe:

    Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

  3. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn:

    If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

  4. Curtis Hill:

    I now stand falsely and publicly accused of abhorrent behavior. These false accusations have irretrievably damaged my reputation, i was not afforded fairness in the investigation.

  5. Bob Bennett:

    I hope that the BCA hasn’t so irretrievably damaged the evidence, or failed to recover evidence that should be reasonably expected to be recovered at the time that the crime occurred, and I use the term ‘crime’ pointedly and intentionally.

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