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certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)- It is as inevitable as death and taxes.
inevitable = certain to happen
- The leaves fall each year with the inevitable change of the seasons.
- With the clock running out of time, a loss seemed inevitable for the team losing by double digits.
- It is a law of human nature — as predictable and inevitable as the pull of gravity.
- Don't argue with the inevitable.
- Stress is the inevitable result of spending too much.
- The negotiated defeat seemed preferable to an inevitable defeat on the battlefield.
- Many have argued that nuclear proliferation is inevitable.
- After so much pressure on the defense, a goal was inevitable.
- The inevitable moment was not much longer to be delayed.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- suffering is not only inevitable, but is an indispensable part of a lifelong education,Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- If the individual was listed in a computer file, which everyone inevitably was, then...Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Inevitably, every document he signed came back with a fresh page added for a new signature by him after intervals of from two to ten days.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- ...it meant a one-mile walk going steeply downward, followed, inevitably, by a one-mile walk going steeply upward.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- he no longer feared the inevitable passage into the night. He knew he was going to die:W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- I guess I was just trying to put off the inevitable.Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
- In his mind, he was fighting all poverty all the time, an endeavor full of difficulties and inevitable failures.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- For most of history, slavery had been accepted as sad but inevitable.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- Why prolong the inevitable?Frank Herbert -- Dune
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