irreversible

The contradictions raised by Wigner’s setup highlighted fundamental and compelling questions about what qualifies as a collapse-causing measurement and whether collapse is irreversible.

Some critics worry that reform would be like an on/off switch—suddenly and irreversibly changing America forever.

They both failed, probably because we have moved irreversibly from the public, Finch-phase of rage to the private, Moore-phase.

Yes, there was something irreversibly bizarre about Obama giving Jack his diploma.

Even as Team Edwards stumbled irreversibly in the primaries, Baron was quick with a pep talk.

The age of confrontation is here now, perhaps irreversibly so.

St. Paul's heart is pledged irrevocably and irreversibly to the Church.

If enough of the chemical adheres to the living bacterium, the living protoplasm thickens and irreversibly coagulates.

To say nothing of the question of how much of Terra's best blood do you want to drain off, irreversibly and permanently?

They begin to heat, perhaps to heat irreversibly, and if they get out of control, they may vaporize.

The real man is discovered, his worth is impartially weighed, his rank is irreversibly decreed.