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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Maybe the tricks learned during this trial can help drivers form some better, cheaper habits to continue when gas prices inevitably decrease again.—
Doug Turnbull,
AJC.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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And some of those people inevitably are going to relapse.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The new biennials that emerged in non-Western cities in these years offered an alternative to this idea that difference necessarily leads to conflict, proposing spaces in which difference could be staged without being territorialized.—
Daniel Birnbaum,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Not that any of this will necessarily be a problem for the youngsters, or for nostalgic adults who grew up playing the Nintendo games and seem intent on never moving on from their childhood obsessions.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Unavoidably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unavoidably. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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