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
That’s when the inevitability of Chawinga won out.
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Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
To a certain extent, a final ruling in the 'Vialidad’ case gives the former president some breathing-room, confirming the inevitability of her guilty sentence.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Kunkel concluded an inevitability.
—Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
What is certain is that, in recent decades, evidence has undermined the idea of inevitability — and inherent direction — in evolution.
—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
With so many new restaurants opening in the past several years, a large number closings are almost certainly an inevitability.
—Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
Shouldn’t the Giants be preparing for what feels like a near inevitability?
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2025
No single handset can overturn an attention economy engineered for addiction, but every incremental choice chips away at its inevitability.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
Satisfying in their inevitability, no twist or impediment was too much to prevent the heroine from marrying her man.
—Grace Aldridge
august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
To a certain extent, a final ruling in the 'Vialidad’ case gives the former president some breathing-room, confirming the inevitability of her guilty sentence.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Kunkel concluded an inevitability.
—Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
What is certain is that, in recent decades, evidence has undermined the idea of inevitability — and inherent direction — in evolution.
—Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
With so many new restaurants opening in the past several years, a large number closings are almost certainly an inevitability.
—Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
Shouldn’t the Giants be preparing for what feels like a near inevitability?
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2025
No single handset can overturn an attention economy engineered for addiction, but every incremental choice chips away at its inevitability.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
Satisfying in their inevitability, no twist or impediment was too much to prevent the heroine from marrying her man.
—Grace Aldridge
august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inevitability
Noun
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Sep. 2025
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The softer labor market has made a 25-basis-point cut at the Federal Reserve’s September 17 meeting a virtual certainty.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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With less than three minutes to play in regulation, the win seemed a certainty for USD.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Inevitability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inevitability. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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