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Ineluctable (adj) means Certain to happen and impossible to avoid.

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Certain to happen and impossible to avoid.

"For the self-regulating market was now believed to follow from the inexorable laws of Nature, and the unshackling of the market to be an ineluctable necessity." — , Karl Polanyi (1957)

"As we've seen, the Manifesto’s argument for the ineluctable impoverishment of the working class under capitalism, for example, has not been borne out." — China Miéville, A Spectre (2022)

"Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her." — Will Self, My Idea of Fun (1993)

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