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- noun uncountable The state or property of being
inescapable . - noun countable Any
abstract inescapable thing.
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Examples
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"inescapability" of a solution based on two states, without regard to the growing impossibility of a real Palestinian state or to the fact that Israel is killing off any prospect for such a state and is in fact openly killing off the Palestinians.
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It is the final and ultimate definition of inescapability—we will be bound to this moment for eternity.
Savage, Minnesota Ryan Amfahr Longhorn 2011
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The unhappiness of its characters, the lack of forgiveness (with one notable exception) in its world, the inescapability of it all will stay with you.
GR2: Red Christmas by Jim Steel « In The Gloaming Podcasts 2009
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And there's a fatalistic element to it, frightening in its inescapability: like childbirth, once you begin, there's no way out except to finish it.
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The deeper lesson is the inescapability of economic diversity: different economies are non-trivially and usefully different.
Ian Fletcher: How to Think Our Way Out of Our Trade Crisis Ian Fletcher 2011
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Having seen the human drama “from a veiled corner,” Du Bois had set about trying to lift the veil of race enough for white people to see—and even to feel—through the medium of arresting language and moral signposts what it was like to be a second class citizen in America, a virtual caste whose pariah status inhered in the inescapability of skin color.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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Given the inescapability of weather, it's no wonder global warming gripped the public mind as long as it did.
What's the Next 'Global Warming'? Bret Stephens 2010
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Given the inescapability of weather, it's no wonder global warming gripped the public mind as long as it did.
What's the Next 'Global Warming'? Bret Stephens 2010
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Given the inescapability of weather, it's no wonder global warming gripped the public mind as long as it did.
What's the Next 'Global Warming'? Bret Stephens 2010
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It is a background and a perch that allows him to write with authority on a subject typified by antithesis, paradox, surprise and inescapability.
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