INEVITABILITY Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

inevitability

noun

as in likelihood

the quality or state of being impossible to avoid or evade a hockey team that has refused to accept the inevitability of defeat

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Recent Examples of inevitability But the mass death and sickening of Americans due to drinking is not an inevitability. —

Lev Facher, STAT, 12 May 2026 This season is over, and the sooner Lakers fans accept the inevitability while applauding the effort. —

Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026 Separate lawsuits challenging Louisiana’s primary delay remain in the lower courts, but even civil rights groups acknowledged the inevitability of the Supreme Court’s influence. —

Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 May 2026 By the time the Magic staggered into Detroit for Game 7 on Sunday afternoon, the outcome felt less like a question and more like an inevitability. —

Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 May 2026 Abraham Lincoln was wary of the doctrine, perceiving that any such notion of divine inevitability could be used to justify land grabs and war. —

Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 Wolves were still fighting for survival long after relegation appeared an inevitability but three defeats, without scoring a goal, in their past three games suggest Sunderland could enjoy themselves at Molineux on Saturday. —

Oliver Kay, New York Times, 1 May 2026 These three inevitabilities rattled and ricocheted around my cranium every Tuesday morning for the better part of two years. —

David Oliver, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026 Now, there are good reasons for this inevitability to get kicked down the road, specifically for JoAnne, who doesn’t trust Duncan and doesn’t want to break the law, at least not so flagrantly. —

Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026

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For now, the closest thing available to predict where sargassum is going is a new tool from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that estimates the likelihood of sargassum inundation along coastlines each day.

— Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
Wednesday’s Producer Price Index report showed the war with Iran is raising costs for US businesses at a rate not seen in nearly four years, increasing the likelihood that companies will pass on those higher costs to consumers.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 13 May 2026