as in likelihood
the quality or state of being impossible to avoid or evade
the continuing debate over the ineluctability of global warming
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Noun
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Though López is still seeking a second opinion, there’s a strong likelihood his season is finished, a damaging blow to the Twins’ hopes of rebounding from two straight losing seasons.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026 -
The Baltimore area’s forecast this week calls for mild temperatures and an increasing likelihood of rain, plus a chance of snow.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Feb. 2026
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Beethoven’s music improves Goethe, extracting its humanity and frailty, and Dudamel’s performance probed its profound inevitability of good triumphing over evil.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Yet despite the inevitability of these shortages, there is no accepted ethical framework for allocating scarce opioids.—
Parker Crutchfield,
STAT,
17 Feb. 2026
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Slight adjustments could be made in oxygen flow or the warmth of the incubator, but no one could predict with any certainty the impact of those actions.—
Steven Levingston,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
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Adaptability keeps us moving forward even when certainty is out of reach.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2026
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Prior to Wednesday, speculators had been fairly balanced in their view of whether a 25-basis-point cut would come at the FOMC’s next meeting in March, giving it a probability of around 40%, per CME’s FedWatch barometer.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Ineluctability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineluctability. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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