as in necessary
impossible to avoid or evade
getting wet is inevitable if you are going to try to give your dog a bath
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Recent Examples of inevitable
As men, violence against women shouldn’t be inevitable, check your brothers, your friends, and your family.
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Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Kicking this can down the road when the outcome is inevitable is not sound practice for anything.
—Ron Kuby, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025
But in the ever-shifting paradigm of how a movie gets released, sometimes an online platform premiere (and its inevitable possible consequences) is the next best thing to a more traditional word-of-mouth generator like a marketing budget or in-person premiere.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
Will that inevitable disaster take a form that doesn’t feel, at least somewhat, like a reboot of previous White Lotus installments?
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for inevitable
Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Kicking this can down the road when the outcome is inevitable is not sound practice for anything.
—Ron Kuby, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025
But in the ever-shifting paradigm of how a movie gets released, sometimes an online platform premiere (and its inevitable possible consequences) is the next best thing to a more traditional word-of-mouth generator like a marketing budget or in-person premiere.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Feb. 2025
Will that inevitable disaster take a form that doesn’t feel, at least somewhat, like a reboot of previous White Lotus installments?
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for inevitable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inevitable
Adjective
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No executions have been carried out in Louisiana since 2010 due to the state’s struggles to get the drugs necessary for lethal injection and scant political will (Landry’s predecessor, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, was opposed to the death penalty).—
Dakin Andone,
CNN,
24 Feb. 2025
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But if that’s necessary, the two-step side passage down to the foredeck is also a smart feature that allows quick access to the main cabin, or to the anchor, if coming into harbor.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Lift one leg to the side, trying to keep your body as still as possible.—
Hilary Achauer,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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And the sonic design just, like, blows your head apart, as if to say this is the scariest part of the possible sequence — just the uncertainty of what’s happening.—
Michaela Zee,
Variety,
22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Yet some causes, such as shifting hormone levels and menopause, are unavoidable.—
Jocelyn Solis-Moreira,
Flow Space,
21 Feb. 2025
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Any notions of generational traumas being unavoidable, or the sins of the father being hidden from sons in the name of protectiveness, plays second fiddle to, say, what Perkins can do to a bus full of cheerleaders at the wrong place at the wrong time.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Inevitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inevitable. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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