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Many economists who propounded the inevitability of business cycles, including Kuznets, Hayek, Paul Samuelson and James Tobin, have won Nobel Prizes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

But people are reacting so strongly not because of how Mollen appears to be dealing with a future inevitability, but because in her right-now behavior, she’s cast her son as her one and only.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

We can all live and work together—or we can succumb to fatalism and a false sense of inevitability.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

The inevitability of what is happening seems pretty clear for folks in the energy community, because of the timing of all this.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

All the neighborhood could think or talk about was the inevitability of war.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith