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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As the storm moves away, this likelihood decreases.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
4 Oct. 2025 -
Taking into account the 13 months the rapper has already spend in jail, and the likelihood of time off for good behavior, Combs is likely to serve between just two, and two-and-a-half years in prison.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That inevitability underscores her need for a personal publicist, who would dictate which outlets were most valuable to engage and perhaps keep certain topics off limits.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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What felt like invincibility now feels more like inevitability.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Exacerbating the pressure is the fact that more VCs than ever are trying to funnel capital into possible winners, at a time where there’s no certainty about what evaluating success or traction even looks like.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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With each passing day, a shutdown is looking more like a certainty than a possibility.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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All of this raises the probability that extraterrestrial life exists in the moon’s subsurface ocean.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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Bayern Munich have arguably been Europe’s most impressive team since August, and routed Pafos 5-1 to improve their title-winning probability to 10 per cent (from six).—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Ineluctability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineluctability. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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