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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 gooners’ rise does, in retrospect, possess a certain inevitability.
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Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The series then retreats to 2019 to trace the circumstances that led to these killings, building toward the inevitability of Maggie and Paul’s death and filtering the whole family through a lens of catastrophe, where every member is either ill-fated or devious.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
And then, with wearying inevitability, the Premier League would follow suit.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
As the Nuggets ascended, Golden State was gradually stripped of its parts, weakened by the inevitability of time and business.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
The outage this week reflects the inevitability of holes in the cybersecurity patchwork that safeguards people’s digital lives, Liao said, but the priority should be how best to protect the internet.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2025
This moment calls for creative policy solutions that treat income loss not as an inevitability, but as a challenge that can be met with fairness and foresight.
—Erin Hogeboom, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2025
It had been photographed and rephotographed, published and celebrated, each time its rooms taking on a sense of inevitability that comes with legend.
—David Netto, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
And then finally the twilight, the inevitability of death.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
The series then retreats to 2019 to trace the circumstances that led to these killings, building toward the inevitability of Maggie and Paul’s death and filtering the whole family through a lens of catastrophe, where every member is either ill-fated or devious.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
And then, with wearying inevitability, the Premier League would follow suit.
—Oliver Kay, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
As the Nuggets ascended, Golden State was gradually stripped of its parts, weakened by the inevitability of time and business.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
The outage this week reflects the inevitability of holes in the cybersecurity patchwork that safeguards people’s digital lives, Liao said, but the priority should be how best to protect the internet.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2025
This moment calls for creative policy solutions that treat income loss not as an inevitability, but as a challenge that can be met with fairness and foresight.
—Erin Hogeboom, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Oct. 2025
It had been photographed and rephotographed, published and celebrated, each time its rooms taking on a sense of inevitability that comes with legend.
—David Netto, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
And then finally the twilight, the inevitability of death.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inevitability
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Cosplayers are a community unto themselves, and at NYCC, the likelihood of passing by a fully functioning DIY transformer costume is as great as passing someone on the street who had a bodega bacon, egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast.—
Nikki Birch,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
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Analysts expect the first have a higher likelihood of being upheld, while the reciprocal tariffs could be declared unconstitutional.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Markets continued to price in a near certainty for a Fed rate cut next week, and upped the odds for another in December, with just a 4% probability the central bank won't ease two more times before the end of the year, according to the CME Group's FedWatch.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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Her certainty falters as the light from the mothership dims, the last traces of the hive connection dying above them.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This approach can reduce the overhead coordination of traditional innovation processes while maximizing the probability of generating top-tier ideas from the start.—
François Candelon,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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The 2032 pass of the hypothetical swarm will arrive from the nighttime side of the Earth, at which point Boslough said the probability of an impact or airburst might be higher than average.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Inevitability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inevitability. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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