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unavoidably

American  
[uhn-uh-void-uhb-lee] / ˌʌn əˈvɔɪd əb li /

adverb

  1. in a way that cannot be avoided; necessarily.


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But doing so also unavoidably hurts the stock price by curbing growth.

From Barron's May 1, 2026

Your question is a deeply personal and an unavoidably structural one.

From MarketWatch Mar. 9, 2026

Some cancers are inevitable - either because of damage we unavoidably build up in our DNA as we age or because we inherit genes that put us at greater risk of the disease.

From BBC Feb. 3, 2026

It seems, unavoidably, to read as an allegory about artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

Any attempt to measure one will unavoidably disturb the other.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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