inexorably

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  1. In an inexorable manner; so as to be immovable by entreaty. There find a Judge inexorably just. Cowper, Hope, l. 227.

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  • The sun descended inexorably, and the plants continued to close in. —  Juxtaposition
  • Slowly but inexorably, they began to drag the enmeshed dragon closer to the ground. —  Dragons Of A Lost Star
  • Patiently, inexorably, the computer had been rearranging letters in all their possible combinations, exhausting each class before going on to the next. —  Of Time and Stars
  • And slowly, inexorably, the memories wound their way from the distant past through a hundred tawdry exploitations because he could find people's weak spots without even trying until finally memory came to the one place where he knew it could not, could not ever go. —  Changed Man and the King of Words
  • "Urge her to eat properly and monitor her cholesterol intake. —  Where There's Smoke
 

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