inevitable

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I struggle no longer against the inevitable, when the inevitable is the crown and joy of earthly things.

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  1. adjective Impossible to avoid or prevent. See Synonyms at certain.
  2. adjective Invariably occurring or appearing; predictable: the inevitable changes of the seasons.

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  • It seemed more likely-inevitable, almost-that they were nothing but frozen corpses somewhere in the trackless stretches from Mars to Saturn, new planetoids that had once been alive. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
  • All it is doing is trying to stop the inevitable, which is a shift in our economy to a more practical way of living, i.e. one not based upon debt to finance a living standard. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • I don't think the bloodletting that Dr. Barnett views as inevitable is in any real sense "inevitable," and those urging it -- both Democrats and Republicans -- are playing with genocide as though that's just a consequence of the world in which we live. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • A current-day prediction of the inevitable could be another case of trading places and gray spaces: that of products and services. —  Logic+Emotion
  • Giving low interest loans to people who couldn't spend their money wisely in the first place is wrong and giving it to people who are out of work will not do anything but prolong the inevitable, which is they will lose their house if htey don't get a job. —  NewsOK.com RSS - home
 

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  1. = Old French inevitable, French inévitable = Spanish inevitable = Portuguese inevitavel = Italian inevitabile, from Latin inevitabilis, unavoidable, from in- privative + evitabilis, avoidable: see evitable.
 

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