Michael Gove

My sister and I know our lives could have been different - radically, unthinkably, irretrievably different - if we had not been adopted. We might have found ourselves in homes without love, stability or kindness. We might have found ourselves in care for much longer, without the secure attachment that being cradled in a mother's arms brings.

British Politician

Joseph Lancaster

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

English Educator

Guy Standing

I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.

English Actor

Robert J. Sawyer

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

Canadian Writer

'Irretrievably' carries a sense of finality, suggesting that something is lost or damaged beyond repair.

Finality

Use 'irretrievably' to stress the intensity or severity of a situation, often with negative outcomes.

Intensity

'Irretrievably' implies that no effort, action, or time can restore the situation to its original state.

No Restoration

 is I'm pretty sure that you have the attention of every kid when you do that no animals were irretrievably harmed in the making of this TED talk yeah no so the backpacks come off and they go back and they do whatever cockroaches do they

Making neuroscience...

 But around black holes, those foundations get shaken. When an apple enters a black hole, it seems as though it leaves the universe, and all its quantum information becomes irretrievably lost.

Irretrievably

Finality

Intensity

No Restoration

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