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Recent Examples of inexorability
These poems are plainspoken, emotionally direct, haunted by the past and the inexorability of time.
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Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexorability
Noun
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Anaerobic metabolism uses more sugar, increasing the likelihood that your body runs out of fuel.—
Brad Stulberg,
Outside,
25 Mar. 2026
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Instead of presenting complex data in raw form, the platform organizes consumers into four practical types (Allies, Borderline, Cold, and Waste) based on their likelihood to choose the client’s brand.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But the sheer relentlessness of its joke-cracking bodes well for future, riskier enterprises — as, for that matter, does the natural spark between Matarazzo’s repeatedly foiled would-be swagger and Giambrone’s disarming mama’s-boy act.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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And that’s been through a lot of sweat and hard work and a relentlessness to that work year in, year out.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The unpredictability of campaigns means that conventional wisdom about frontrunners and inevitability frequently proves incorrect.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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But because baseball is about impossibility and inevitability, the Red Sox are also just like every other team.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
21 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Mar. 2026
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The mayor, one of eight prominent Democrats in the race, has often been the candidate with the second-highest probability after Swalwell.—
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
22 Mar. 2026
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“Inexorability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexorability. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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