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Definition
certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)
- To hoard crumbs of information, Josie tried to watch television ... but inevitably her mother would come into the room and turn it off.Part 1 (29% in)
inevitably = with certainty that it will happen
- And then inevitably her father would come in and berate her for disturbing a pencil or a file or-God forbid-himself.Part 1 (20% in)
- It happened all the time to North Country justices: someone you knew would inevitably wind up in your courtroom.Part 1 (31% in)
- Even when her mother followed the recipe, it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to, and then inevitably Josie would press her for details and find out she'd used baking powder instead of baking soda, or whole wheat flour instead of cornmeal (We didn't have any, she complained).Part 1 (92% in)
- Josie felt herself hurtle toward it and she steeled herself for the inevitable crash.Part 1 (**% in)
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