eventuate
Americanverb (used without object)
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eventuates,
present (3rd person singular)
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eventuated,
past participle, past
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eventuating
present participle
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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
"If this were to eventuate, the end result would be even higher interest rates and a larger rise in unemployment would be required to bring inflation back to target."
From Reuters ● May 5, 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
For that reason, if meeting a ransomware demand did eventuate in the data being released, Coroneos said improving cyber security practices was of the utmost priority.
From The Guardian ● May 15, 2017
If this scheme of mine—which I have had in my mind for a long time—should eventuate, as I guess it will, I shall want you to take a hand in it.
From In Search of El Dorado by Harry Collingwood
"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
But because it is behavior, the consequences, if they are acts, operate not in the pseudo-environment where the behavior is stimulated, but in the real environment where action eventuates.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
“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
So far, fears that coronavirus would devastate Indigenous communities have not eventuated, due to strong efforts by governments to lock remote communities down, and through communities themselves taking action.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020
"The risks were known, not insignificant and on Ethicon's own admission, serious harm could ensue if they eventuated," Ms Katzmann said in her ruling.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2019
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
The eventuating disintegration of all polities in the ensuing moral vacuum was complete.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
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 Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Flandrau
It seemed that such conditions were on the eve of eventuating for the rescue and disenthralment of darkest Africa.
From Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked by C. H. Thomas
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 Ethel Watts Mumford
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