Thesaurus results for INVOLUNTARILY

involuntarily

adverb

Definition of involuntarily

as in inevitably

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Recent Examples of involuntarily This includes not only people who are unemployed and looking for a job, but also those who are involuntarily working part-time and who are earning poverty-level wages, or less than $26,000 annually before taxes. — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 That order applied to nearly 8,000 active-duty and reserve troops who were involuntarily separated after refusing the shot, more than half of whom did not receive honorable discharges. — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 23 July 2026 Many old borrowers had to consolidate loans, choose new repayment plans or risk being involuntarily placed in one that may not fit their budget, loan experts said. — Medora Lee, USA Today, 22 July 2026 More than 8,000 service members were involuntarily discharged for refusing the shot. — Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 24 June 2026 While being treated for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins in the 1950s, this African American mother of five unknowingly—and involuntarily—changed the course of medical history. — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 3 June 2026 Media reports early Wednesday had said she had been released from Baker Act detention, which allows law enforcement to involuntarily commit people to a mental health facility for up to 72 hours, but not immediately arrested. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 June 2026 While in foster care, the daughter was involuntarily hospitalized and forcibly medicated, while the toddler and his brother started bed-wetting and engaging in self-harm. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026 Best had briefly been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital in June 2025, after blocking a vehicle entry on the east side of the White House, CNN and the NYT reported. — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026

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Opponents say the current setup is just right and that Iceland already enjoys all the benefits of European integration without the sovereignty compromises that inevitably will come from being a full member.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026
Efforts to protect them will inevitably spill into censorship of all users — now on the orders of the government.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of inevitably

Adverb

Each represented a resident who had died of an overdose, and I was unavoidably moved.

— Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
West End Girl, the newest album, which unavoidably broke the internet, centered on the end of a tumultuous relationship following her 2025 split from ex-husband David Harbour.

— Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026

Definition of unavoidably

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Others necessarily mean somebody’s job, project, contract or spending disappearing.

— Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026
The real test for humanoid robots’ capabilities will necessarily take place in the real world beyond the demonstrations at the World Humanoid Robot Games.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of necessarily

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Football is inescapably tribal and opposition abuse tends to prompt a closing of ranks.

— Liam Twomey, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
The United States, which had been lurching toward entry in the Second World War, was suddenly and inescapably thrust into global conflict.

— Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

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