inexorably
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It became clear that what at first appeared to him and his father as another of the floods that afflicted Mystic every few years grew inexorably through the night until it became monstrous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
History is not a world-spirit moving inexorably towards some breezy, sunlit upland of wisdom.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026
Faulkner found it in the patient, steadfast Dilsey of “The Sound and the Fury,” and in his greatest novel, “Absalom, Absalom!” he showed how its absence led inexorably to the ruin of Thomas Sutpen.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Plenty of bumps remain along the trading roads that inexorably lead to India.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
She knew that those waves would push her inexorably toward the beach, and she and her brothers used to laughingly skim along their crests until they were spit out on the sand.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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