eventuality
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The May 10 Substack essay that began circulating in the wake of her Instagram post did nothing to dispel that eventuality.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
It’s turned into an all too familiar ritual: college sports dancing around an eventuality, instead of proactively tackling the hardest parts head-on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
Prior to the decision being announced, Hull City assistant manager Dean Holden said on the Monday Night Club that the club would be prepared for whatever eventuality.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Iran had previously said it was ready for any eventuality and defiantly refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which it closed in retaliation for the attack launched on February 28.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
His mother railed against the possibility that the jurors would be driven by hatred and prejudice; she hoped that in such an eventuality Ishmael would write an editorial.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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Fully guaranteed money is protected against all three eventualities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
"So we're getting rid of that variability by making something that's across the board recognisable by your immune system that should cover you from all these eventualities ... a real big paradigm change," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Nobody wants to think about such eventualities, but it’s best to account for all possible scenarios in legal documents.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 21, 2026
“We had a very long list of ‘what ifs,’ in other words eventualities that could happen and how we would deal with them in an emergency,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
I just remember a period when, convinced that an apostrophe was definitely required somewhere, I would cunningly suspend a very small one immediately above the “s”, to cover all eventualities.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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Vocabulary lists containing eventuality
John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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And Then There Were None
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