INELUCTABILITY Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

ineluctability

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Definition of ineluctability

as in likelihood

the quality or state of being impossible to avoid or evade the continuing debate over the ineluctability of global warming

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Noun

Suspensions and expulsions are associated with negative outcomes, including lower educational achievement, decreased likelihood of graduating high school and depression.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
With both of these important data points in hand, the market is pricing in a 78% likelihood that the central bank will hold in October, compared with a 36% chance a week ago, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.

— Alexa LoMonaco,Jeff Nash, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of likelihood

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Years later, the group reflected on their chart dominance and the inevitability that another artist would eventually surpass them.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
Jay has always skillfully folded each turn into his larger mythology, going from drug dealer to rapper to label boss to executive with an air of inevitability, every choice subsumed into the glory of the hustle.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of inevitability

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By defining requirements upfront and approving change orders quickly, the model improves schedule certainty and ensures vessels are mission-ready when they are delivered.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Heavy rainfall is a certainty with this storm, but the level of threat from sustained winds and storm surge will be dependent upon the extent to which Isaias can get its act together.

— Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of certainty

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In the most extreme, low-probability scenarios, at the very tip of the long tail, the calculated death toll was huge, in the tens of millions.

— Kevin Roose, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
Additionally, the position's P50, the probability of capturing half the max profit before expiration, sits at 72%.

— Julia Spina, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of probability

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