Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inexorable manner; so as to be immovable by entreaty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an inexorable manner; inflexibly.
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- adverb In an
inexorable manner; without the possibility ofstopping orprevention .
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- adverb in an inexorable manner
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Examples
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But they can see that power is moving inexorably from the the G8 to the G20, where Europe's influence will be diluted by major new players like China and India.
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As McCain inexorably implodes, an extremely angry Republican party in most of its strands rears its ugly head — the extraordinary levels of hate at recent McCain-Palin rallies are just the tip of the iceberg.
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As McCain inexorably implodes, an extremely angry Republican party in most of its strands rears its ugly head — the extraordinary levels of hate at recent McCain-Palin rallies are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Perhaps in some recess of the psyche the human organism knows that it is a fractal of the reflexive universe itself, repeated in microcosmic multiplicity like a holographic plate – worlds within worlds within worlds – and that, far beyond the cold war reflex, our emergence into space rose inexorably from the taproot of evolution, the heartsong of a cosmos that is finally the dance of spirit.
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For to show clearly how violence changed, even corrupted children, drawing them into its maelstrom inexorably, is not to condemn their cause or to diminish their accomplishments but to get a little closer to the painful truths that shaped those who lived then and remember now.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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And then, abruptly, Lynch gave up his post and faded inexorably from the public's view, despite Fidelity's decision to send him around as its roving corporate ambassador.
American Everyman 2004
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And then, abruptly, Lynch gave up his post and faded inexorably from the public's view, despite Fidelity's decision to send him around as its roving corporate ambassador.
American Everyman 2004
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What he needs to learn at once and for all, to learn softly and easily, but inexorably, is that he is one of many.
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For years, I was sure that Easter and Esther were inexorably linked together (though I didn't use the word inexorably).
unknown title 2009
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Neither “Man’s Rights” or “Racism” slams Kant, so I think it would be more accurate to say that NPR follows inexorably from the altruist-collectivist ethics.
seanahan commented on the word inexorably
"If I can't exclude those disjunctions, I'll die trying", Tom said inexorably.
August 3, 2008