the inevitable
noun
: something that is sure to happen
They're just trying to delay/postpone the inevitable.
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California planned for a measured approach to managing its growing wolf population, setting aside funds to pay for the inevitable attacks on livestock as well as the cost of helping ranchers deter the animals from settling near their properties.
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Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 12 Jan. 2026
And with the new year upon us and a biting chill in the air, now is the ideal time to prepare for the inevitable clutter caused by our hodgepodge of gardening tools.
—Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2026
To our minds, Wednesday's horror, those kids who lost a mother, should supplant the inevitable circling of the ideological wagons and the parsing of the different angles of pictures taken at the scene.
—Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
With Donna’s Banishment seeming almost a forgone conclusion, Cumming summoned the players back to a special morning edition of the Roundtable to just get the inevitable out of the way.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
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Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 12 Jan. 2026
And with the new year upon us and a biting chill in the air, now is the ideal time to prepare for the inevitable clutter caused by our hodgepodge of gardening tools.
—Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2026
To our minds, Wednesday's horror, those kids who lost a mother, should supplant the inevitable circling of the ideological wagons and the parsing of the different angles of pictures taken at the scene.
—Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
With Donna’s Banishment seeming almost a forgone conclusion, Cumming summoned the players back to a special morning edition of the Roundtable to just get the inevitable out of the way.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
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“The inevitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20inevitable. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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