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Recent Examples of inexorability
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
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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
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
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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
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French filmmaker David Moreau’s MadS is in some ways the platonic ideal of the one-shot film, using the lack of cuts to create a sense of propulsion and relentlessness that mirrors its characters’ descent into hell.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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To cope with that relentlessness, Gunderson then moved the drill down to the 10-yard line in order to get Johnson back into the huddle sooner.—
Andy Greder,
Twin Cities,
15 Oct. 2025
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But the gooners’ rise does, in retrospect, possess a certain inevitability.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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“Inexorability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexorability. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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