But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail.
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Irretrievably
Synonyms for "irretrievably" (23 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Adverb(1 words)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (11)
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More general
1 entriesadverb of manner
Collocations
6 entriesirretrievably alteredirretrievably compromisedirretrievably corruptedirretrievably damagedirretrievably lostirretrievably ruined
Inflections
2 entriesmore irretrievablymost irretrievably
Derivations
2 entriesSample sentences
5 total sentences available.
This country is going irretrievably down the plughole.
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The time you waste today is irretrievably lost.
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Old English seems, and remains, irretrievably distant[.]
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