beyond repair
idiom
: to such an extent that repair is not possible
The car was damaged beyond repair.
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Purdy put his reporter’s hat back on and dug up that the 38 S. Fifth St. house — which would have sat in the plaza just south of the city council chambers — was demolished after an arson fire damaged it beyond repair.
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
All the institutions of the postwar order and prosperity—our great universities, our public-health system, our scientific-research establishment—have been damaged, perhaps beyond repair.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
These shrubs will shed any leaves that are damaged beyond repair on their own.
—Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2025
Wealthy beyond imagination, disillusioned beyond repair, Carl Bardolph has spent years watching from the shadows as the tech world churns forward, unimpressed by those who came after him and uninterested in returning.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2025
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Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
All the institutions of the postwar order and prosperity—our great universities, our public-health system, our scientific-research establishment—have been damaged, perhaps beyond repair.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
These shrubs will shed any leaves that are damaged beyond repair on their own.
—Heather Zidack, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2025
Wealthy beyond imagination, disillusioned beyond repair, Carl Bardolph has spent years watching from the shadows as the tech world churns forward, unimpressed by those who came after him and uninterested in returning.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Beyond repair.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beyond%20repair. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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