Thesaurus results for INELUCTABLY

ineluctably

adverb

as in inevitably

because of necessity writing poetry is an ineluctably solitary activity

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Recent Examples of ineluctably The landscape is ineluctably moving toward standardized and digitally enabled operations. — Alexander Clausbruch, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026 Film, like writing, is ineluctably linear, an experience cast in time. — Roy Scranton august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025

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Aging inevitably changes the brain, but people retain the capacity to learn throughout life.

— Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
A lot of attention is inevitably going to fall on the world premieres or the fresher films that just played in Venice or Telluride.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of inevitably

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Willock, meanwhile, has an alternative profile to any of the midfielders Newcastle have and, with no out-and-out No 10 necessarily present, he was deemed an asset, at least in the short-to-medium term.

— Chris Waugh, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Avoiding technological progress is neither realistic nor necessarily desirable.

— Ekramy El Zaghat, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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