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
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Public conversations about loneliness tend to collapse a distinction between feeling lonely and being socially isolated—the latter is an objective state that doesn’t inevitably mean a person feels the negative emotions of loneliness.—
Jenny Singer,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Everything about the day went absolutely perfect, there was not a single thing that went wrong, and that was surreal too because in weddings usually something inevitably goes wrong.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2026
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This week’s cinematic celebration is necessarily bittersweet.—
Elycia Rubin,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Ineluctably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineluctably. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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