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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unrepeatable
adjective
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▪ Always self-deprecating and modest, he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer, remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes.
▪ As an initial act it is a once-for-all, unrepeatable experience.
▪ It did not make pleasant listening and most of it was unrepeatable.
▪ It would be naive and vain to try to emulate Pope John, who was unique and unrepeatable.
▪ Since excavation involves destruction of much of the evidence, it is an unrepeatable exercise.
▪ The only words in her head were aimed at fitzAlan and they were quite unrepeatable.
▪ The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features.
▪ Then she remembered why Nahum had come home in a terrible temper and called her unrepeatable names.
Wiktionary
unrepeatable

a. 1 Unable to be repeated 2 (context science English) (''of an experiment or procedure'') That gives different results when repeated

WordNet
unrepeatable
  1. adj. not able or fit to be repeated or quoted; "what he said was funny but unquotable" [syn: unquotable] [ant: repeatable, repeatable]

  2. unique; "dogs and mice and flies are as unrepeatable as men are"- Theodosius Dobzhansky

Wikipedia
Unrepeatable

Unrepeatable is the title of a performance by British comedian Eddie Izzard. It was filmed on 14 March 1994 at the Albery Theatre, released on VHS, and follows his first show, Live at the Ambassadors.

He covers a wide range of topics, which is typical of his "stream of consciousness" style of comedy.

Usage examples of "unrepeatable".

But however reducible to partsdegree, pound per square inch, lumen, hour by the clock, latitude, inclination and seasonhowever simple and limited the rules for varying these, something in the particular combination of elements is, like twelve notes and ten durations compounded into a complex cortex-storm, unique, unrepeatable, infinitely unlikely.

Through the night she slept heavily, and brokenly -- that was the bad sign -- but then she would sit up, take her medicine, say unrepeatable things to me and sleep again.

Father Quixote felt a wild temptation to use the same unrepeatable phrase about his title of monsignor, but he resisted it.

This experience, unrepeatable and unpreserved by high technology, means, ultimately, nothing to the future of the band.

In an instant he shattered a branch that had taken millions of years to crystallize into unique, unrepeatable forkings, not wanting to but forced to reduce it to powdered glass.

These things too were exact, unrepeatable, as was the way they had chosen to stand together, even though it might seem as random as the stones in a stream bed.

A few years after Gutenberg, a few before Shakespeare, unrepeatable era of giants: da Vinci, Erasmus, Michelangelo, Rabelais.

They made up their own verses to the song of Riding On A Donkey, all of them rude and unrepeatable, expressing their hatred of the brutal work.

But how could I justify passing over an unrepeatable opportunity just to keep temporarily the regard of one slow-witted stable lad, however much I might like him?

Words came then, strange words, unpronounceable, unrepeatable only a second after they were spoken.

Still, hundreds of them died: each a pinpoint of awareness, each of them in its way unrepeatable and unique.

I trailed back to the kitchen, where the cook threw a spoon at me and told me, in totally unrepeatable language, to go screw myself.

We have all experienced the frustration of trying to recapture a fond memory from our childhood, an exhilarating adventure, an expired romance, only to find that it was unrepeatable, simply because that unique set of circumstances could not be reproduced.

She created again the arc of the sword through the air, created the precise poise, serene, passionate, unrepeatable, in which the lovers had balanced on the rail while the struggle had raged beyond them and the woman had buckled the sword belt round them so that they should go down unseparated into darkness.

To Guillam, Haydon was of that unrepeatable, fading Circus generation, to which his parents and George Smiley also belonged - exclusive and in Haydon's case blueblooded - which had lived a dozen leisured lives to his own hasty one, and still, thirty years later, gave the Circus its dying flavour of adventure.