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inevitable
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , inevitables are extraplanar magical constructs .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an inevitable consequence (= that you cannot avoid ) ▪ Loss of mobility is not an inevitable consequence of old age. bowed to the inevitable (= accepted something he could not change ) ▪ Myers finally bowed to the ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 impossible to avoid or prevent. 2 predictable, or always happening. n. Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
Usage examples of inevitable.
The great distance separating America from Europe, the inevitable long delay in any communication with Congress, or worse, the complete lack of communication for months at a stretch, would plague both Franklin and Adams their whole time in Europe, and put them at a decided disadvantage in dealing with European ministers, who maintained far closer, more efficient contact.
Jefferson was the inevitable and ideal choice to replace Washington, Adams professed to be tired of politics.
I remembered the inevitable expressions of surprise with which, young Alpinists and ballooners, expecting the rim of the visible circle to fall away, see it rising around them in saucer-shape.
The beggar looked up at Apollonius as if he knew that what would follow was inevitable.
CD singles from the other bands available for sale in the foyer with the inevitable round of programmes, tee-shirts and other bits and pieces.
Now Barnett realized that there was no longer any way to prevent or delay the inevitable: James Meredith was coming into the university with the might of the federal government backing him up.
The immunity of the gods, who fight their mock battles while men stand and die, casts into higher relief the tragic situation of the men who risk and suffer not only pain and mutilation but the prospect, inevitable if the war goes on long enough, of death, of the total extinction of the individual personality.
Beaten at every turn, the followers of Bharata Rahon were forced to accept the inevitable, while those who had hated him were secretly delighted now that they were assured that both the Princess and the King had vouched for this strange warrior.
There was always the inevitable curiosity about how this very white man came to have a biracial niece.
Debussy nor Scriabine, no Strawinsky nor Bloch, put in appearance, one might possibly have found oneself compelled to believe the mournful decadence of Richard Strauss the inevitable development awaiting musical genius in the modern world.
Perhaps it was the way he worked, this Boxhead, so sure, so preplanned seeming, so inevitable.
Buckingham raised his standard at Brecknock, it was inevitable that Richard should get news of the intended attack.
They had retreated for three generations, about thirty thousand human years, raising their broods on cold nestworlds around red dwarfs, conserving, holding back for the inevitable conflicts.
Luke said, hating to let her father know that she had not escaped in a bullboat, after all, though defeat now seemed inevitable.
In this view, then, the rise of Ross Perot is the inevitable Caesarist quest for a capable outside figure who can straighten out the corrupt system.