inevitability

CEFRB2

/ɪˌnɛvɪtəˈbɪlɪti/

noun

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Humans worship choices. Alpha doesn't choose. It executes inevitability.
Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Surveillance capitalism is a human creation. It lives in history, not in technological inevitability.

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Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.
1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358
Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.
2014 November 2, Daniel Taylor, “Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United”, in The Guardian
Surveillance capitalism is a human creation. It lives in history, not in technological inevitability.
2019 January 20, John Naughton, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian
Manchester United's 27-year-old captain cut a distracted and chaotic figure as he endured a personal nightmare, its conclusion with a red card carrying an air of inevitability from the moment he recklessly launched himself at Yussuf Poulsen to pick up an early yellow.
2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport

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