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Its history should teach us a few things: The ineluctability of technological change in the consumer industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

For long stretches, we’re subjected to what feels like an endless parade of movie stars philosophizing about death—its ineluctability, its finality, how “the extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass.”

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2013

In fact, some of us think that an awareness of the ineluctability of disability should inform our discussions of health care and national policy.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2012

But they get under your skin--O.K., we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke--and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the ineluctability of American innocence.

From Time Magazine Archive

We see master and slave alike, confounded at the celerity and ineluctability of our approach, calling warnings— messengers sent on horseback, riding no faster than our progress, posting along ridges, bent close upon their steeds.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson