as in inevitably
because of necessity
we'll be unavoidably late this evening
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Recent Examples of unavoidably
The office of attorney general is, unavoidably, a political position that requires political skill.
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Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
Still, Zack’s woodworking unavoidably generates noise and dust.
—Kayla Levy, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2025
Guiteau is interesting, too, a clearly troubled man who became mobilized in ways the series links unavoidably, for me at least, to current online message boards and other radical corners of the web.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
The influencer, 36, has made her name online sharing the good, bad and often unavoidably comical realities of her life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
So in theory, at least, robot soldiers could outperform human ones, who often and sometimes unavoidably make mistakes in the heat of battle.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
Still, Zack’s woodworking unavoidably generates noise and dust.
—Kayla Levy, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2025
Guiteau is interesting, too, a clearly troubled man who became mobilized in ways the series links unavoidably, for me at least, to current online message boards and other radical corners of the web.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
The influencer, 36, has made her name online sharing the good, bad and often unavoidably comical realities of her life with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
So in theory, at least, robot soldiers could outperform human ones, who often and sometimes unavoidably make mistakes in the heat of battle.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unavoidably
Adverb
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The blaster does include the darts, which will inevitably be quickly strewn around your house.—
Chaunie Brusie,
Parents,
14 Mar. 2026
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In each show, the two nitwits would set out on some caper, which would inevitably go horribly wrong, leaving them broke, or tied up, or in jail, or hanging over a cliff, or some other situation of great peril.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Some philosophical discussions are lost but some necessarily disturbing physical moments are kept.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
18 Mar. 2026
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The biography’s brevity is necessarily limiting.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Unavoidably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unavoidably. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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