sense of inevitability

collocation in English

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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inevitability
noun[U]
uk
/ɪˌnev.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/ˌɪnˌev.ə.t̬əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the fact of being certain to happen and unable to be avoided ...
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(Definition ofsenseandinevitabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of inevitability

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Thesenseofinevitabilityseems, well, inevitable in such retrospective renderings, given the dot-connecting intrinsic to timeline-type portraits.
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As a title, it seems to be didactic in intent, seeking to justify a poetic strangeness by creating asenseofinevitability.
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It is just that even at its most recondite there is asenseofinevitabilityto each climax, and every rounding off of material.
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As the tale unfolds, asenseofinevitabilitybuilds up.
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I also speak as someone who has watched this crisis develop with somesenseofinevitabilityover the years.
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There is asenseofinevitabilityabout the whole business.
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Furthermore, asenseofinevitabilityprevails throughout the text.
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There is about these poems asenseofinevitability, as though they could not possibly be other than what they are.
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Both these songs include the theme of obsessive circular motion in order to create asenseofinevitability.
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In the novel, the characters all seem to have asenseofinevitabilityabout the whole affair, and know the time to preserve what they have is limited.
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