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
So advertising is doing its most important 24work before the big results eventuate, and to abandon the money which has been invested just before results arrive, is not only foolish but childish.
From The Clock that Had no Hands And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising by Herbert Kaufman
"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 Thorstein Veblen
“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
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
General James Jones Outgoing National Security Adviser Mr Jones's departure was the subject of rumours long before it eventuated.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2011
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
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 Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
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 J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant
We shall erelong hear still more remarkable illustrations of subconsciously maturing processes eventuating in results of which we suddenly grow conscious.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
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
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