eventualities

noun

plural of eventuality
1
as in possibilities
something that can develop or become actual a cure for that form of cancer seems like a certain eventuality—it's just a matter of time

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2
as in events
something that might happen a full-force hurricane on the day of the picnic was one eventuality that we hadn't planned on

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Recent Examples of eventualities Prepare the hold statement for eventualities beforehand, and assign only one person who will be permitted to make the announcement without seeking consensus through committees. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 The Founders apparently thought the impeachment process would accommodate all eventualities. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026 Atwood's Testaments is a sequel to her Handmaid's Tale, however, not Miller's Handmaid's Tale, which over the course of six seasons far surpassed the bounds of its source, fabricating entirely new characters, storylines, and eventualities. — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Apr. 2026 There are innumerable combinations of situations and eventualities that flow from that, but at its core, that’s really what the game is about. — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026 There are further eventualities, such as Liverpool or Chelsea winning the Champions League, or Aston Villa lifting the Europa League, while finishing below fifth, meaning six/seven English teams qualify for UEFA’s premier tournament. — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026 China is prepared for such eventualities, however. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Nov. 2025 Certainly, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is preparing for all eventualities. — Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for eventualities
  1. possibilities
  2. events
  3. contingencies
  4. cases
Noun
  • Omelchenko appreciates the study authors’ ability to translate math to real life but notes that fully evaluating the possibilities of new stitches by using torus diagrams would be impractically expensive to compute.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
  • These are demarcated spaces that harbor countless possibilities and contain the infinite, as if in a story by Jorge Luis Borges.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of possibilities
Noun
  • Harris has held campaign events in California, Nevada, and Georgia, starting her tour off in Michigan to stump with the progressive Democratic nominee for Michigan’s open Senate seat, Abdul el Sayed.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Flashbacks to recent events reveal that the townspeople never let Hal find peace, and even firebombed his home, only for a grown-up Noah — Kerry’s son, and Zoe’s grandson — to save him and regenerate his skin using Zoe’s covert alien tech.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of events
Noun
  • The many contingencies of realization scramble the binary of timelessness and time.
    — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Experts say the military always plans for different types of contingencies.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of contingencies
Noun
  • Sánchez, while a popular progressive leader internationally, has been surrounded by a series of legal cases against his Socialist party and even his family, which all deny any wrongdoing.
    — JOSEPH WILSON, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The court's conservative majority has, in multiple cases, ruled in favor of religious exemptions from generally applicable laws.
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of cases

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“Eventualities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eventualities. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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