as in inevitable
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not able to be stopped or changed
an inexorable conclusion the inexorable rise of a political movement
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Carol Geist Viard, who published the article, The Pragmatist Method, in the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy (2015), states that civil interactions are inexorable elements of democratic citizenship.
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Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The mobility of capital insured an inexorable race to the bottom for labor and the environment; vulnerable nations have been left to absorb the costly externalities.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Maza incorporates a recurring visual motif – blood or dark sap that oozes down tree trunks, over thorny cacti and along dusty terrain, a metaphor for the spilling of blood and the inexorable seeping of corruption.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The loss of empire was accepted as part of the inexorable logic of decolonization, but with an empire had come a set of strategic interests that required active engagement across the globe, and now those were gone.
—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
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Blake D. Morant, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
The mobility of capital insured an inexorable race to the bottom for labor and the environment; vulnerable nations have been left to absorb the costly externalities.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Maza incorporates a recurring visual motif – blood or dark sap that oozes down tree trunks, over thorny cacti and along dusty terrain, a metaphor for the spilling of blood and the inexorable seeping of corruption.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The loss of empire was accepted as part of the inexorable logic of decolonization, but with an empire had come a set of strategic interests that required active engagement across the globe, and now those were gone.
—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
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