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ineluctable
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synonyms: inexorable ???
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Definition:unavoidable; inescapable
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The first will be the ineluctable fact of climate change.
2007 July 7, Marina Hyde, "The artists formerly known as huge carbon footprints," Guardian Unlimited
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caught in the treadmill of their own maladies and eccentricities, their futile endeavours to escape serve only to actuate its mechanism, to keep in motion the clockwork of their strange, ineluctable, fatal daily round.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)
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I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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