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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By the ineluctable logic of Trumpism, of course the ex-President had to do something to change the subject.
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Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
And here’s the thing: The large, ineluctable past cannot be simply be bound up tight with the iron bands of a gag order.
—Howard Blum, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
After all, didn’t Western theorists once insist that a growing economy was the companion to ineluctable democratic development?
—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
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Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
And here’s the thing: The large, ineluctable past cannot be simply be bound up tight with the iron bands of a gag order.
—Howard Blum, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
After all, didn’t Western theorists once insist that a growing economy was the companion to ineluctable democratic development?
—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
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“Ineluctable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineluctable. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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