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Then there is the transition, with its ambivalence and complexity: The irrevocability and exhilaration of it — “All I could do was emote,” Sante said of that time.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Instead, his desire for atonement seems to darken his recollections—faced with the irrevocability of his patients’ suffering, he is unable to escape from its shadow.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2015

That thought crept into my consciousness, and now I was beginning to have a hollow feeling of irrevocability, of the impossibility of reversing time and fate.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2014

Even as I tried to have my father committed, I fretted over the irrevocability of the process.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2012

But when she had the permit and her cabin was booked, the irrevocability of her step came to her with full force.

From Saint's Progress by Galsworthy, John