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Recent Examples of inexorability
These poems are plainspoken, emotionally direct, haunted by the past and the inexorability of time.
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Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability.
—Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexorability
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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For many days during Vonn’s nearly 25 years in the spotlight, that kind of relentlessness leads to glory.—
Will Graves,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2026
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The relentlessness of their fixture list does not provide many opportunities to pause, to consider their progress to this point, and imagine what might be yet to come.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Marx’s account of class struggle and socio-economic inevitability is a philosophical leviathan.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Feb. 2026
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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
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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“Inexorability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexorability. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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