ineluctably

as in inevitably
because of necessity writing poetry is an ineluctably solitary activity

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Recent Examples of ineluctably Film, like writing, is ineluctably linear, an experience cast in time. Roy Scranton august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
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Adverb
  • Throughout history, authoritarian governments have inevitably turned their eyes to faith.
    Rev. Nathan Empsall, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Everyone would sit at the dinner table expectantly, their pork chops in front of them, waiting for a knock at the door that would, inevitably, never come.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The results don’t suggest that either form of storytelling—conceptual or perceptual—is necessarily easier to remember than the other; participants in the new study recalled the stories told in these two ways roughly equally.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Desai, who wasn't involved in this study, doesn't think the sport is necessarily getting more dangerous.
    Arundathi Nair, NPR, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Ineluctably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineluctably. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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