unavoidable
Americanadjective
adjective
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unable to be avoided; inevitable
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law not capable of being declared null and void
Other Word Forms
- unavoidability noun
- unavoidableness noun
- unavoidably adverb
Etymology
Origin of unavoidable
1570–80; un- 1 + avoidable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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"The biggest concern that I have is when potholes are in fact unavoidable."
From BBC
Where this is all going is as unavoidable as the fact that Scotty died on what seems to be only road in and out of town.
From Los Angeles Times
She added the authority had a legal duty to deal with Marsh's appeal, a process it said required unavoidable expenditure.
From BBC
These findings challenge a long-standing assumption that immune exhaustion is an unavoidable result of prolonged immune activity.
From Science Daily
To investigate whether this trade off was unavoidable, the Cambridge researchers intentionally created what they expected to be a poorly performing system.
From Science Daily
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