adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an inevitable consequence (= that you cannot avoid )
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Loss of mobility is not an inevitable consequence of old age.
bowed to the inevitable (= accepted something he could not change )
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Myers finally bowed to the inevitable and withdrew from the campaign.
certain/inevitable doom (= sure to happen )
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Some environmentalists have concluded that the planet faces certain doom.
the inescapable/inevitable conclusion (= one that is very obvious, although you may not like it )
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The inescapable conclusion was that the country needed a change of leadership.
the inevitable result (= a result that is impossible to avoid )
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Weight loss is an inevitable result of the disease.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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It was almost inevitable that this would have a negative effect on any innovative work.
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The almost inevitable result: Housing prices will drop, hurting homeowners.
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Felt was an almost inevitable consequence of keeping woolly sheep.
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They identify the mechanisms that make suburban sprawl possible, almost inevitable .
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If the current mood sustains, the killing of a paedophile by the public seems almost inevitable .
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Judgemade economic policy seems an almost inevitable consequence of a balanced-budget amendment in our litigious society.
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In all the circumstances some rot of some kind was almost inevitable in a good proportion of gliders.
as
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They regard the conflicts between the centre and the locality as inevitable .
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Conflict is viewed as inevitable and a normal part of the way things get done.
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They also teach us to regard such disappointment as inevitable .
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Health care was seldom a major political issue, and inequalities in its provision were considered as inevitable as inequalities in wealth.
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Hence, class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society.
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Yet the return of the mayflies is no longer as inevitable as the return of May.
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Were things as inevitable as they seem?
perhaps
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All this is perhaps inevitable in a subject which is expanding at the rate of around 1000 research publications a year.
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This, of course, would make the development of complexity probable, perhaps inevitable .
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Is it not perhaps inevitable for all creatures with imagination, all creatures which can say no?
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It was a tragedy, though perhaps inevitable , that these two great peoples met in conflict.
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It is perhaps inevitable that professionals view advocates with a touch of apprehension and mistrust.
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In undertaking such a vast development programme as the Mahaweli Project, it is perhaps inevitable that unanticipated problems arise.
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This was perhaps inevitable , given the nature of the medium.
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As we have seen, even though the Government Actuary's Department's guidelines are helpful, a rough-and-ready approach is perhaps inevitable .
probably
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In retrospect, this split was probably inevitable .
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Too bad, judging from the old films, but probably inevitable .
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While full commercialization is probably inevitable , how the Internet will evolve is unclear.
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As Henriques etal. acknowledge, such problems are probably inevitable .
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Some drop out is probably inevitable .
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But she argues that, because this marking is universal, it is probably inevitable .
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In view of its relatively small budget and the size of the region, this is probably inevitable .
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From that moment on, a split between de Gaulle and the parties was probably inevitable .
■ NOUN
consequence
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Felt was an almost inevitable consequence of keeping woolly sheep.
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Such loyalty is by no means automatic or the inevitable consequence of propinquity.
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Our sole companion had been drinking heavily, with inevitable consequences .
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This knowledge brings solace, because the organization is familiar with the inevitable consequences and believes it can effectively deal with them.
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There were exaggerated expectations for one thing, a more or less inevitable consequence of those golden years.
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Judgemade economic policy seems an almost inevitable consequence of a balanced-budget amendment in our litigious society.
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Such a proliferation of bureaucracy is an inevitable consequence of the expansion of the activities of the state.
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Finally, restricting has the inevitable consequence of spreading unhealthy fear throughout an organization.
decline
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Old age was a phase of irrevocable and inevitable decline .
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Oil and gas production in the Permian is on a seemingly inevitable decline .
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There is then no selection, and an inevitable decline in viability and fertility.
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Namely, the inevitable decline of pagan myth.
outcome
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Such barrenness is the inevitable outcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.
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Although I favour examination rigour, further restriction on available content will be an inevitable outcome .
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It was a sad but inevitable outcome of not maintaining a proper balance between productivity and personality.
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An eleventh-century manuscript's depiction of war between Christians and Moors, and its inevitable outcome - baptism or execution.
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Concern for comfort, health and certainty are inevitable outcomes of this physiological decline.
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Given their workload, cuddling or talking to children is a luxury, and emotional deprivation an inevitable outcome .
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Adverse side-effects are the inevitable outcome of such an onslaught.
part
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But to suggest it's an inevitable part of our continuing generation costs is simply wrong.
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Alzheimer's is often seen as an inevitable part of ageing.
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Yet a large public sector appeared to be an almost inevitable part of the modern economy.
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Parsons's argument suggests that stratification is an inevitable part of all human societies.
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Is this accumulation of plasmids an inevitable part of evolution's scheme to kill us off when our breeding days are over?
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However, gaining weight is not an inevitable part of getting older.
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However the body has several physical internal mechanisms for combating the adverse external conditions which are an inevitable part of living.
question
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The way her mind had been working at the time, it had been an almost inevitable question .
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The inevitable question that all this raises is why?
result
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Therefore a draw becomes the inevitable result .
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The inevitable result is that innocent people die at the hands of the state.
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Magona has a surer touch when narrating the sweep of history that builds up to create inevitable results .
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I interpret as the inevitable result of conflict between art and female obligation in upper-class, old-family Boston.
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These are the inevitable results of leaving the merit of a book to be determined exclusively by market value.
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With grain prices kept at an artificially high price thereafter, the further impoverishment of those already poor was the inevitable result .
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Violence becomes, as a result , an appealing and even an inevitable result.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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If the population continues to expand, Ehrlich argues, mass starvation and ecological disaster will be the inevitable consequence.
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It was inevitable that he'd find out her secret sooner or later.
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Nina could never escape the inevitable comparisons that people made between her and her twin.
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Payton handled the inevitable questions about his past with great dignity.
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Since the leaders can't agree, more fighting is inevitable .
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The price of bread was doubled, with the inevitable result - riots in the streets of Paris.
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War now seems inevitable .