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incapable of being reversed- And this is irreversible.John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
- Irreversible, terminal things.Peter Shaffer -- Equus
- Ten million people were now transparent worldwide, the movement irreversible.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- I wake up feeling different, like something inside me is changing, something chemical and irreversible.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- "I can't believe that the process is irreversible.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- Irreversible logic, a killer's survival logic demanded that after taking out the backup the Jackal had to race away as fast as humanly possible.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
- She was ground down and eventually beaten so badly that she suffered irreversible brain damage.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
- Death was irreversible, he suspected, and he began to think he was going to lose.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Have I made an irreversible mistake?Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
- The procedure is irreversible.Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
- It was as if she had just discovered the irreversible process.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- Once I take that irreversible step of confronting him, it's pretty much game over.Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave
- "Work out how long they can stay on this course before it's irreversible.Andy Weir -- The Martian
- Lainie came and stood next to me, sort of collapsed against my haunch in a way that meant she was irreversibly bored.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- A certain restlessness disappears," he squeaked, "in favor of irreversible serenity."Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- His voice lowered and he repeated: "A poison—so subtle, so insidious .... so irreversible.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- Oh, not in a matter of hours or even days or weeks, but that the course was irreversible.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- Yes: his decision was irreversible.Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- If the damage was permanent and irreversible?Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- In reality, Ebola had not yet made a decisive, irreversible breakthrough into the human race, but it seemed close to doing that.Richard Preston -- The Hot Zone
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