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Six example sentences with irrevocable, each labelled with its topic.
Once the transfer clears, the payment is irrevocable, so the bank cannot pull the money back from the recipient.
Finance
Clearing the last hectare of old forest would be irrevocable; nothing planted now reaches that height for four centuries.
Environment
Deleting the card was an irrevocable mistake; the wedding frames existed nowhere else and no software could recover them.
Photography
The trust is irrevocable, so the grandfather cannot take the money back even if he changes his mind next year.
Law
The choice at the river is irrevocable, and players who pick the wrong bank lose access to half the map.
Gaming
Deleting the old codebase turned out to be irrevocable, since the only backup lived on a laptop that had been sold.
Startups
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Found in 6 published word lists
- Business Word List (part 1)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- Magoosh GRE 1000Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
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