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The phrase "cannot be recouped" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is used to describe something that cannot be restored or regained, usually a loss of some kind. For example: The losses due to the sudden closure of the business cannot be recouped.
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Yet the business remains extremely difficult for new entrants to crack, because it has relatively high fixed costs that cannot be recouped without a critical mass of advertisers, Mr. Mastin said.
Some agreed with prosecutors that Dr. Stone's warning to his patient's parents and wife effectively let the cat out of the bag; once the patient permits a disclosure, the privilege of confidentiality cannot be recouped.
"These investments cannot be recouped easily".
These advances in a declining CD market cannot be recouped.
The money that minimum-wage earners lost due to the goof this year probably cannot be recouped, according to Rodriguez.
The cost for filming one opera or ballet can exceed one million dollars, an amount that simply cannot be recouped with DVD sales after broadcast.
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How will production costs be recouped?
That monstrous loss can never be recouped".
Another £70m will be recouped by improving building use.
Those vast licence fees may never be recouped.
Some of the losses will not be recouped.
More suggestions(18)
cannot be diverted
cannot be recovered
cannot be cleaned
cannot be salvaged
cannot be retrieved
cannot be rescued
cannot be restored
cannot be saved
cannot be depreciated
cannot be removed
cannot be fetched
cannot be regained
cannot be acquired
cannot be excluded
cannot be escaped
cannot be denied
cannot be neglected
cannot be industrialized
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com