Example Sentences

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There was a kind of twisted inevitability with how the Republic of Ireland's fate was sealed after Hallgrimsson revealed in the build-up that his squad would not practise penalties.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The unpredictability of campaigns means that conventional wisdom about frontrunners and inevitability frequently proves incorrect.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

No sooner are we confronted with life’s most painful mysteries—the inevitability of death; the inevitability, too, of the failure of love—than she interrupts her own narrative with editorializing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Coplan said the company has focused on the ethics of insider transactions, before adding that it was “sort of an inevitability that this will happen, and there’s a lot of benefits from it.”

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

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

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith