Thesaurus results for INVOLUNTARILY

involuntarily

adverb

as in inevitably

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Recent Examples of involuntarily For instance, the number of workers who are involuntarily working part-time jobs has been steadily rising while the rate at which employers are hiring new workers has been declining. —

Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 8 May 2026 More than 8,000 service members were involuntarily discharged for refusing the shot. —

Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026 Lyons said Gillum crossed state lines before his agency could prepare the paperwork to involuntarily commit him to psychiatric treatment. —

ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 Alamance County Lieutenant Clint Lyons told the AP that Gillum crossed the southern state line before the paperwork could be filed to involuntarily commit him to psychiatric treatment. —

Walden Green, Pitchfork, 23 Apr. 2026 On Tuesday a civil jury concluded that Lodes resigned involuntarily due to his reporting of a hostile workplace and was awarded the multimillion-dollar payment as compensation for his emotional damages. —

Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026 Roughly 8,700 active duty and reserve troops voluntarily or involuntarily left the military after refusing to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, and the mandate was rescinded in 2023. —

Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 Around his college years, Fahim was also involuntarily hospitalized for the first — but not last — time, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and began taking an anti-psychotic medication. —

Sean Emery, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026 The 22-person committee’s focus is to fix the revolving door of people who are involuntarily committed, released, and arrested again while facing mental health struggles. —

Julia Coin april 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 Apr. 2026

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Decadent art, with its mannerism, also its enthusiasm for skulls, swords, strippers, and other Hot Topic motifs, is for some art historians an embarrassing cul-de-sac best passed over in favor of a narrative of formal progress leading inevitably to abstraction.

— Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
And shortages in other parts of the world will inevitably hit the United States, albeit with a delay.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 1 May 2026