as in necessary
impossible to avoid or evade
getting wet is inevitable if you are going to try to give your dog a bath
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Recent Examples of inevitable
No talent is attached to that film, though inevitable speculation about Eggers’ frequent collaborator Willem Dafoe playing Scrooge began immediately after the project was announced.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
These remarks were a sharp contrast with that of his predecessor Lloyd Austin, who said at the same Shangri-La Dialogue a year earlier that a conflict was neither imminent nor inevitable.
—Zhou Bo, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
The same logo feels heavy — weighed down by penalties, panic, and the memory of what used to be inevitable.
—D’joumbarey Moreau, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
The double-cross at Piccadilly Circus is inevitable, but the episode plays the sequence elegantly, intercutting Tara’s effort to give her minders the slip with the Park’s feckless attempt to manage a breach in the MI5 database.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
These remarks were a sharp contrast with that of his predecessor Lloyd Austin, who said at the same Shangri-La Dialogue a year earlier that a conflict was neither imminent nor inevitable.
—Zhou Bo, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
The same logo feels heavy — weighed down by penalties, panic, and the memory of what used to be inevitable.
—D’joumbarey Moreau, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
The double-cross at Piccadilly Circus is inevitable, but the episode plays the sequence elegantly, intercutting Tara’s effort to give her minders the slip with the Park’s feckless attempt to manage a breach in the MI5 database.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inevitable
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Having initially faced 20 years in jail, the additional indictments raised his possible jail term to 45 years, with a mandatory minimum of five years in federal prison.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Each restaurant in Jefferson County is scored out of a possible 100 points.—
Gege Reed,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Political violence can reach a point where a long period of bloodshed becomes nearly unavoidable.—
Darren Kew,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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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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“Inevitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inevitable. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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