as in inevitable
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not able to be stopped or changed
an inexorable conclusion the inexorable rise of a political movement
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Recent Examples of inexorable
This character of aberrance is what makes accidental surfing deaths seem inevitable—or, rather, inexorable, built into the subway’s force.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
The Tyranids represent man's fear of the natural world, nature's inexorable ability to overwhelm, decay, and devour all of man's greatest works.
—Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch.
—Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The inexorable spread of artificial light, the explosion in the number of satellites—on nearly any scale of time, these changes have happened in an instant.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
The Tyranids represent man's fear of the natural world, nature's inexorable ability to overwhelm, decay, and devour all of man's greatest works.
—Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch.
—Anne Reeve, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
The inexorable spread of artificial light, the explosion in the number of satellites—on nearly any scale of time, these changes have happened in an instant.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexorable
Adjective
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But what’s undeniable to anyone with two eyes is that Ellison, like so many corporate leaders, has been kissing up to Trump for more than a year — first to get control of Paramount and then in an attempt to make his company’s acquisition of Warners look inevitable.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
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Many Jeeps, too, made our list, which was inevitable, and so did cars that challenge the definition, including the Mitsubishi Delica, Subaru Forester, and Mercedes Unimog.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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When her car is stolen and impounded, Amanda is thrust into a relentless legal battle against an indifferent system.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
1 Mar. 2026
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Paramount’s pressure campaign had been relentless, first winning over theater owners, who expressed alarm over Netflix’s business model that encourages consumers to watch movies in their homes.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Inexorable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexorable. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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