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the quality or state of being impossible to avoid or evade
a hockey team that has refused to accept the inevitability of defeat
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Recent Examples of inevitability
Marx’s account of class struggle and socio-economic inevitability is a philosophical leviathan.
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Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
The presence of famous executives and creators made success feel less like a hypothesis and more like an inevitability.
—Spencer Harrison, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
Renewables Are Resilient And Will Keep Growing Despite political headwinds, supply chain bottlenecks, and high interest rates, the ascent of renewable energy is an arithmetic inevitability.
—Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
By the time uncertainty gives way to inevitability, options may narrow fast.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Could the public’s interest in such people be a way of reassuring themselves that death — an inevitability most of us would prefer not to think about — is still a long way down the field?
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
His pacing had organic inevitability, with just the right breaths between phrases and daring but strategic yieldings at transitions.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
The Stoic philosophers, fixated on the impassive, idealized masculine, wrote often of death, attempting to acknowledge its inevitability while staring untroubled into its abyss.
—Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
As Uganda’s election approaches on Thursday, the atmosphere in Kampala carries that same thick, familiar weight of inevitability.
—Charles Onyango-Obbo, semafor.com, 12 Jan. 2026
Big Think, 5 Feb. 2026
The presence of famous executives and creators made success feel less like a hypothesis and more like an inevitability.
—Spencer Harrison, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
Renewables Are Resilient And Will Keep Growing Despite political headwinds, supply chain bottlenecks, and high interest rates, the ascent of renewable energy is an arithmetic inevitability.
—Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
By the time uncertainty gives way to inevitability, options may narrow fast.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Could the public’s interest in such people be a way of reassuring themselves that death — an inevitability most of us would prefer not to think about — is still a long way down the field?
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
His pacing had organic inevitability, with just the right breaths between phrases and daring but strategic yieldings at transitions.
—Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
The Stoic philosophers, fixated on the impassive, idealized masculine, wrote often of death, attempting to acknowledge its inevitability while staring untroubled into its abyss.
—Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
As Uganda’s election approaches on Thursday, the atmosphere in Kampala carries that same thick, familiar weight of inevitability.
—Charles Onyango-Obbo, semafor.com, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inevitability
Noun
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The recent batch of labor market data (both public and private) indicated that there’s a high likelihood that job growth was tepid, that unemployment remained subdued and that health care remained a primary driver of overall hiring.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Eldridge, in all likelihood, won’t be anything more than an emergency outfielder in the same way that teams have an emergency catcher.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Rousseau asked in his closing, referring to testimony from Detective Jerry Cedillo on his certainty that Bell-Johnson was one of the shooters.—
Emerson Clarridge
Updated February 6,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Feb. 2026
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And in this vacuum of scientific certainty, inaccurate beliefs thrive.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There’s also a 55% greater chance of obesity and a 40% higher probability of developing type 2 diabetes.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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The highest probability for fog looks to be along the Balcones Escarpment, with patchy fog also possible across the Coastal Plains and along the Interstate 35 corridor.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Austin American Statesman,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Inevitability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inevitability. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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