eventuate
Americanverb (used without object)
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to have issue; result.
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to be the issue or outcome; come about.
verb
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(often foll by in) to result ultimately (in)
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to come about as a result
famine eventuated from the crop failure
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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eventuatesimple
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eventuatessimple
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have eventuatedperfect
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has eventuatedperfect
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am eventuatingprogressive
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are eventuatingprogressive
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is eventuatingprogressive
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have been eventuatingperfect progressive
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has been eventuatingperfect progressive
Past
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eventuatedsimple
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had eventuatedperfect
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was eventuatingprogressive
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were eventuatingprogressive
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had been eventuatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of eventuate
Example Sentences
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“Our key view remains that the market is more than generous on mine life extensions for SFR and that these may not eventuate despite higher copper prices.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
A person with direct knowledge of the sales process said it was uncertain whether a deal would eventuate.
From Reuters ● Oct. 19, 2023
Cosell: Incidentally, Bobby did win the Grand Slam, and we had a lot of talk this past year about Jack winning the Grand Slam, and it didn’t eventuate.
From Golf Digest ● May 4, 2020
These stories eventuate a better kind of amusement — not indulgence, but the sometimes discomfiting pleasure of being dazzled.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2018
They consequently fail to attain the highest results for the general good, but they are inaugurating an intellectual movement which will eventuate in a more glorious future.
From Colleges in America by Barker, John Marshall
"If another soft print eventuates, expect pricing for ECB cuts to extend beyond the current 100bps of cuts being priced for 2024."
From Reuters ● Nov. 20, 2023
"It is still very early days and people are generally prepared to wait and see what eventuates."
From Reuters ● Nov. 29, 2021
The inevitable penalty appeal eventuates, which displeases Keogh immensely.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015
If what eventuates is not just Joey but others becoming more aware of the need to show respect for different cultures then I feel the stand I have taken will be worthwhile.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2010
They are a source of national jealousy, and they may on occasion become a help to military strategy when this national jealousy eventuates in hostilities.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein
“I don’t know that this has ever eventuated in the history of the music industry. You have a 50-year-old record that looks like it’s just being released.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021
In a BBC interview in 2013, Mr Johnson stressed that "nothing eventuated" from the conversation and that people often said "fantastical things" to close friends of theirs.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2020
He urged locals to heed evacuation warnings but said he was concerned people may take those warnings less seriously than they did last weekend, because the worst-case scenario had not yet eventuated.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
Suffice it to say that draining at no time eventuated.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2017
As we shall see, Aborigines in the climatically most favorable areas of Australia were evolving in a direction that might have eventuated in food production.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
EDT 17:15 51 min Not a whole lot is coming to pass, eventuating or occurring.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2016
That is, it is an attitude of willingness toward the will of God, an act of surrender to the will of God, eventuating in an activity in continuing in the will of God.
From The Church, the Schools and Evolution by Conant, J. E. (Judson Eber)
If the psychological moment in someone's affairs was eventuating, something for which she had long planned the dénouement.
From Out of the Ashes by Mumford, Ethel Watts
Thus the conflict of sentiment raged, eventuating in no action, however, save in the case which we are now about to record.
From Overshadowed A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
This adjustment ended a transaction that was conceived and executed in folly, and was only prevented from eventuating in crime by the persistent efforts of our most honorable and thoughtful citizens throughout the state.
From The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Flandrau, Charles E. (Charles Eugene)
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