How to Use irrevocable in a Sentence
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The election is irrevocable for the year in which it is made.
—Lynn Mucenski Keck, Forbes, 27 May 2021
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Many of the terms that are customary in an irrevocable trust are still used in a silent trust.
—Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2020
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In this case, the trust will become irrevocable when the second spouse dies.
—Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 5 Dec. 2020
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The Guardians now have seven days to trade or place Bradley and Allen on irrevocable outright waivers.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 2 May 2022
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The players will not be paid, and the notice is irrevocable.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2021
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And each change makes more clear how irrevocable this change is and adds to the impetus for everybody else to move.
—Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2021
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Last week marked an irrevocable turning point for the U.S. Supreme Court — and our nation.
—Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
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In the past, part of a living trust often became irrevocable when one spouse died.
—Liz Weston | Nerdwallet.com, oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
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That is the case for both your 401(k) and your irrevocable trust, but for different reasons.
—Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
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Meta funds it via an irrevocable trust, but does not have any say in its decisions.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
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The effective date is the date the trust becomes irrevocable.
—Dallas News, 4 July 2021
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Wait until the second half of the week to make irrevocable decisions or changes.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2021
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But Jordahl said the 30-foot bollards being erected by DHS will have an irrevocable effect on the land and wildlife.
—Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
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In a sign that the Queen’s decision is irrevocable, the palace revealed that her beloved corgis had already been flown to Toronto.
—Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 23 July 2019
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Just three days before the attack, Weiss agreed to make Pamela the policy's irrevocable trustee.
—CBS News, 5 Nov. 2022
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Eleven lots in the auction were offered with irrevocable bids.
—Angelica Villa For Artnews, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2021
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There was the irrevocable sound of the organ starting up inside, the scuffling noise of the congregation rising to its feet.
—Graham Swift, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
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These are ideas involving irrevocable choices, changes and that funny way that life has of making even great gains come with a loss.
—Mick Lasalle, Houston Chronicle, 20 June 2018
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Don’t sign on the dotted line or make an irrevocable decision this week.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 1 June 2021
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The funds raised will be transferred to an irrevocable trust to help Roundtree’s family pay for medical costs.
—Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Oct. 2019
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The substance of folk music, as embodied by Bob Dylan, was about to make an irrevocable alliance with rock and pop.
—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2023
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He was told to fashion order from chaos, and this was his ultimate, his irrevocable proof.
—New York Times, 29 May 2021
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Daughter assumes that since the trusts are irrevocable, and have been around a long time, that there is no relevance to her attorney looking at them.
—Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 11 July 2022
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Chernoff said putting a player on irrevocable waivers so late in the season was an unusual move.
—Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2023
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Wait until the dust settles to make irrevocable changes.
—Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, 28 July 2019
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And in a 2015 interview with the Globe before he was sworn in, Baker affirmed that his no-new-taxes, no-new-fees pledge was an irrevocable promise — with one caveat.
—Joshua Miller and Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
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Maybe green skin does paint you marginal in a deeper, more irrevocable way.
—EW.com, 9 Oct. 2023
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At the time, press freedom in Russia seemed irrevocable.
—Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
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Selling the properties to post a bond would cause irrevocable harm to the company, according to Trump's lawyers.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
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Even as life takes irrevocable turns, Ponyboy still feels trapped, which makes narrative sense but proves difficult to dramatize.
—Naveen Kumar, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
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