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Meanings of ineluctable in English

That cannot be avoided.

Usage of ineluctable in English
1
The more he considered it the more ineluctable did his situation become.
Children of the Whirlwind
2
It renders them permanent, ineluctable, part of the eternal order of things.
Beauty
3
Its ineluctable charms straddle all sorts of generic barriers and taste boundaries.
The Irish Times
4
There was nothing ineluctable about the advance of political pluralism and market economics.
The Irish Times
5
The ineluctable fact remains that this is the noblest nocturne of them all.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
6
He feels an ineluctable pull to go upstairs, where a horrific event occurs.
The Guardian
7
The ineluctable question is raised again: Have you read Ulysses?
The Irish Times
8
When he had the ineluctable sympathy for another person, it deflated all the romance.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
9
For Sugimoto, not the slightest thing about the modality of the visible is ineluctable.
The Irish Times
10
The dirigibles still prowled closer and closer, sluggish and ineluctable.
Perdido Street Station
11
The ineluctable spider-presence flicked the construct up onto its dagger-limbs and tossed it nimbly up.
Perdido Street Station
12
But he was powerless before that ineluctable artificial force.
Perdido Street Station
13
It was, very clearly, the blasphemous city of the mirage in stark, objective, and ineluctable reality.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
14
Had he, in this strange cosmos, simply accepted and used the ineluctable limitations of his art?
Star Maker
15
Quite how put out you are by that ineluctable truth is a matter of personal taste.
The Guardian
16
He tried to balance conflicting pulls, working with the Kremlin while feeling the revolution's ineluctable draw.
The gun
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