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
If the former is about the inevitability of falling in love, a complete surrender beyond the speaker’s control, the latter confronts the pain of romantic love’s aftermath.
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Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
The backlash and the inevitability are not competing stories.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
There are a lot of inevitabilities coming into season five.
—Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
While walking the red carpet at PaleyFest on Sunday, Wyle, who's also a writer, director, and executive producer on the medical drama, described Ganesh's departure as an inevitability.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Fluctuations in performance levels were seen as a near inevitability due to his previous lack of game time at City.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
The music also brought to mind the idea of going down with the ship or a sense of crushing inevitability.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
Space enthusiasts often pitch our future in outer space as an inevitability — the result of an innate human drive to explore and pursue new frontiers.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
But the inevitability of destruction would soon come and your ship would crash, ending your turn.
—Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2026
Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
The backlash and the inevitability are not competing stories.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
There are a lot of inevitabilities coming into season five.
—Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
While walking the red carpet at PaleyFest on Sunday, Wyle, who's also a writer, director, and executive producer on the medical drama, described Ganesh's departure as an inevitability.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Fluctuations in performance levels were seen as a near inevitability due to his previous lack of game time at City.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
The music also brought to mind the idea of going down with the ship or a sense of crushing inevitability.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 8 Apr. 2026
Space enthusiasts often pitch our future in outer space as an inevitability — the result of an innate human drive to explore and pursue new frontiers.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
But the inevitability of destruction would soon come and your ship would crash, ending your turn.
—Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inevitability
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Ford said persistently wet soil conditions across the state are limiting stormwater absorption, sending more runoff into major waterways such as the Des Plaines and Fox rivers and raising the likelihood of flash flooding.—
Christiana Freitag,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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The likelihood of success in a second round of talks increases with the political exigencies and condition of those at the table.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Cuisinart coffee grinders offer a little more certainty than Krups.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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Under the Basic Coordination plan, reactive chaos will erode what certainty remains on the changing river, said John Berggren, the regional policy manager for Western Resource Advocates, a climate advocacy organization.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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The perils of relying on probability In the United States, flood risk is publicly defined by maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.—
Dominic Boyer,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Inevitability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inevitability. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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