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inexorable
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  • The march of time is inexorable, no matter how much we wish to hold on to the past.
    inexorable = unstoppable
  • Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.  (source)
    inexorable = unyielding
  • The inexorable rhythm beat itself out.  (source)
    inexorable = unstoppable
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  • Buck was inexorable.  (source)
    inexorable = unstoppable or relentless
  • her husband was inexorably resolved to cut or wrench it away.  (source)
    inexorably = absolutely (in an unstoppable manner)
  • That lady's dread of a scene gave her an inexorableness which the greatest strength of character could not have produced, since it was independent of all considerations of right or wrong; and knowing this, Lily seldom ventured to assail it.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • She was happy when she could act in behalf of this inexorability she was all the time warning us about.†  (source)
  • Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.†  (source)
  • Slowly, inexorably, he'd gone from drinking because he wanted it to drinking because he needed it.†  (source)
  • Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law, and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions.†  (source)
  • All this— laws, prejudices, deeds, men, things—went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the complicated and mysterious movement which God imparts to civilization, walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference.†  (source)
  • She could feel the inexorable beat within her body, controlling her heart, her lungs.†  (source)
  • But it only sank further, as inexorably as if it were weighted with stones.†  (source)
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