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  • noun Plural form of inevitable.

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Examples

  • President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, three 'inevitables': death, taxes-and nearly 92 million Filipinos.

    WN.com - Articles related to Tax them, not us, interest groups say to Congress' health proposals 2009

  • Americans are expected to face all the vagaries of life individually with no institutional supports to keep the playing field level, or address the inevitables of life: illness and aging.

    Think Progress » To ‘cut’ the ‘entitlement mentality,’ Rep. Kingston touts privatizing Social Security and Medicare. 2010

  • Manage the Aftermath: After the feast is finished, there are two inevitables: leftovers and cleaning.

    Avital Binshtock: How to Green Your Thanksgiving Avital Binshtock 2010

  • These inevitables may be classed as follows: The Family letter; the friendly letter; the business letter; the letter of condolence or felicitation; the love-letter; the miscellaneous note.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • I suppose I must wait for growth, which may in itself prove an improvement, but then will come the inevitable can you tell how doomed I'm feeling, from all these inevitables? decision about the haircutter.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Becca 2008

  • I suppose I must wait for growth, which may in itself prove an improvement, but then will come the inevitable can you tell how doomed I'm feeling, from all these inevitables? decision about the haircutter.

    Hair, Alas Becca 2008

  • Nevertheless, there were vultures circling-patient, confident of the more certain, and tasty, of life's two inevitables-their necrophiliac radar sweeping the weeds.

    Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Nevertheless, there were vultures circling-patient, confident of the more certain, and tasty, of life's two inevitables-their necrophiliac radar sweeping the weeds.

    Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

  • Il n'y a pas de doute que dans la situation actuelle, on nous avons ces zones grises, qui sont inevitables dans n'importe quelle constitution, que c'est le gouvernement qui possede le plus de moyens financiers qui se trouve a avoir le plus de possibilites pour intervenir et pour faire sentir son poids, au detriment, souvent, dun fonctionnement souhaitable d'un veritable regime federal.

    Inter-Provincial and Federal-Provincial Relations 1973

  • Lamentable as this state of things undoubtedly was, it was nevertheless one of the inevitables of pressing.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

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