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.
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Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Roy Scranton
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineluctably
Adverb
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Throughout history, authoritarian governments have inevitably turned their eyes to faith.—
Rev. Nathan Empsall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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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