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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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Though López is still seeking a second opinion, there’s a strong likelihood his season is finished, a damaging blow to the Twins’ hopes of rebounding from two straight losing seasons.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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The Baltimore area’s forecast this week calls for mild temperatures and an increasing likelihood of rain, plus a chance of snow.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Star guard Azzi Fudd, who also made the Wooden Award top 20, picked up the scoring mantle for Strong with 17 points and four assists in 23 minutes, but there was no replacement for Strong’s relentlessness on the boards or her on-court leadership at both ends of the floor.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2026
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For many days during Vonn’s nearly 25 years in the spotlight, that kind of relentlessness leads to glory.—
Will Graves,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Beethoven’s music improves Goethe, extracting its humanity and frailty, and Dudamel’s performance probed its profound inevitability of good triumphing over evil.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Yet despite the inevitability of these shortages, there is no accepted ethical framework for allocating scarce opioids.—
Parker Crutchfield,
STAT,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Prior to Wednesday, speculators had been fairly balanced in their view of whether a 25-basis-point cut would come at the FOMC’s next meeting in March, giving it a probability of around 40%, per CME’s FedWatch barometer.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
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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,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Inexorability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexorability. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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