as in inevitable
impossible to avoid or evade
unfortunately, kitchen duty will be unavoidable tonight
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Recent Examples of unavoidable
The phrase has become ubiquitous; almost unavoidable.
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Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
The unavoidable flows of commerce, capital and communication, per Moffett, were already creating a single North American culture by sheer force of geography.
—Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Political violence can reach a point where a long period of bloodshed becomes nearly unavoidable.
—Darren Kew, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
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.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
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Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
The unavoidable flows of commerce, capital and communication, per Moffett, were already creating a single North American culture by sheer force of geography.
—Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
Political violence can reach a point where a long period of bloodshed becomes nearly unavoidable.
—Darren Kew, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
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.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unavoidable
Adjective
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The goal to come was inevitable.—
Julian McKenzie,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement Aging was considered inevitable.—
Dominique Mosbergen,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In both cases, Israel sought to justify its aggression as a necessary security measure to protect its southern communities.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Improvements in several fields are necessary to achieve this capacity.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Unavoidable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unavoidable. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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