as in inevitable
impossible to avoid or evade
unfortunately, kitchen duty will be unavoidable tonight
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Recent Examples of unavoidable
Light pollution has become an unavoidable facet of modern life.
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026
If driving is unavoidable, police said to use caution and travel at a slow speed.
—Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
With only five slots available, marquee omissions are unavoidable.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
Hardware, particularly premium hardware, comes with unavoidable challenges—inventory risk, supply chain exposure, servicing and warranty obligations—and Beast has chosen to address those before accelerating expansion.
—Lela London, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026
If driving is unavoidable, police said to use caution and travel at a slow speed.
—Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 26 Jan. 2026
With only five slots available, marquee omissions are unavoidable.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
Hardware, particularly premium hardware, comes with unavoidable challenges—inventory risk, supply chain exposure, servicing and warranty obligations—and Beast has chosen to address those before accelerating expansion.
—Lela London, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unavoidable
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The dramatic halt may have been inevitable given how far and how fast metal prices had surged over the last year.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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For governments, company leaders, investors, and others, the danger of the present lies not in uncertainty itself, but in the demand for overly simple solutions and the paralysis induced by their inevitable failure.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Still, the goal is to make necessary changes before hardship.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
31 Jan. 2026
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On the company’s earnings call, analysts asked CEO Tim Cook several questions about Apple’s access to memory components, which have seen their prices skyrocket due to demand related to chips necessary for artificial intelligence data centers.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Unavoidable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unavoidable. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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