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  • adverb In an inescapable manner.

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  • adverb by necessity

Etymologies

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inescapable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Is my to-requirement another piece of evidence establishing that despite my aspirations and affectations I remain inescapably prole?

    2009 February « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Is my to-requirement another piece of evidence establishing that despite my aspirations and affectations I remain inescapably prole?

    Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Igo notes that although such surveys have become more scientific, they remain inescapably reductive, so that Americans have learned “what their metaphorical, but not their actual, neighbors were thinking and doing.”

    Cover to Cover 2007

  • Igo notes that although such surveys have become more scientific, they remain inescapably reductive, so that Americans have learned “what their metaphorical, but not their actual, neighbors were thinking and doing.”

    Cover to Cover 2007

  • What we yearn for inescapably is some kind of world pantheon of major league poets, something like a shared legacy.

    Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • The next-generation IT model, the re-think model, arises inescapably from a number of today's most urgent current business issues.

    Re-Thinking the IT Model 1999

  • The United Nations, inescapably, is an organization at once of great weakness and great strength.

    Ralph J. Bunche - Nobel Lecture 1950

  • This is 15 year old Oliver (Craig Roberts), a clever, smallish, lugubrious schoolboy in a duffel coat, whose unchanging deadpan expression inescapably recalls Dustin Hoffman's Benjamin

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Assertions that begin with the existence of God lead "inescapably" to atheism by provoking people's resistance to authoritarian claims 5, especially when the special authority of theology is contrasted with science's appeal to reproducible, demonstrable evidence.

    Philocrites: The reality of the symbol of God. 1998

  • Substantial cuts "inescapably" had to be made to bring BSF spending down to manageable levels, and there was no obvious or reasonable alternative.

    BBC News - Home 2011

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