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Inescapable; Not to be evaded.

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Usage examples (8)
  • But he never let go his grip, his sense of resistance, his impulse to fight the worst, the unshunnable obligation of being alive and going on with the game, succeed or fail.
  • Upon all those subjects that are of moral apprehension, society seems to possess an intelligence of its own, infinitely sensitive in its delicacy, and almost conclusive in the...
  • 'Tis destiny unshunnable like death:
  • 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:
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