as in inevitable
impossible to avoid or evade
unfortunately, kitchen duty will be unavoidable tonight
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Recent Examples of unavoidable
Videos made with OpenAI's Sora app are flooding TikTok, Instagram Reels and other platforms, making people increasingly familiar — and fed up — with nearly unavoidable synthetic footage being pumped out by what amounts to an artificial intelligence slop machine.
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Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Soon after, the market made that alignment unavoidable.
—Andreas Cleve, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
The learning curve will be unavoidable.
—Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
This creates unavoidable and intolerable conflicts of interest that poison the competitive dynamics that healthy markets require.
—Asad Ramzanali, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
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Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Soon after, the market made that alignment unavoidable.
—Andreas Cleve, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
The learning curve will be unavoidable.
—Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
This creates unavoidable and intolerable conflicts of interest that poison the competitive dynamics that healthy markets require.
—Asad Ramzanali, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unavoidable
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In their statement, Shalom's owners told Public Investigator natural deaths are inevitable at any zoo.—
Quinn Clark,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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When these run out however, devaluation is inevitable, usually causing a recession.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
26 Oct. 2025
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Almost six months into the ban, however, and questions are being asked whether the ongoing restrictions are excessive, and no longer necessary.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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That won’t be the case this season; the Lakers are all-in on Luka heliocentricism, with James’ early absence due to sciatica making that commitment even more necessary.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Unavoidable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unavoidable. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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