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Niven dabbles in fantasy too — his Warlock stories posit a world where magic is a natural, unrenewable resource that is slowly and irreversibly being consumed.

From Time • Jun. 13, 2012

Every heightening of emotion produced for her a new effusion of beauty in visible things, and with it the sense that such moments should be lingered over and absorbed like some unrenewable miracle.

From The Reef by Wharton, Edith

But the corresponding wastage on the Southern side was unrenewed and unrenewable.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry