as in inevitable
impossible to avoid or evade
the ineluctable approach of winter had many worried about the cost of heating their homes
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After all, didn’t Western theorists once insist that a growing economy was the companion to ineluctable democratic development?
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Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Vance is steadily stacking his cards as a singer-songwriter of ineluctable artistic power.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 May 2024
Ever Seen' Civil War belongs more to the tradition of battle movies like The Thin Red Line or Apocalypse Now, in which war is the mysterious, ineluctable manifestation of the American will — perhaps its unconscious will.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
Second, the history of third-party presidential candidacies is one of ineluctable failure.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021
Vance is steadily stacking his cards as a singer-songwriter of ineluctable artistic power.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 May 2024
Ever Seen' Civil War belongs more to the tradition of battle movies like The Thin Red Line or Apocalypse Now, in which war is the mysterious, ineluctable manifestation of the American will — perhaps its unconscious will.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
Second, the history of third-party presidential candidacies is one of ineluctable failure.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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“Ineluctable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineluctable. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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