Peter Sokolowski
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first heard Jul 2026
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The action lies or is based on in the seventeenth century.
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And it was originally used in law as a term referring to the foundation or grounds for a legal action without which the action would not be legally sustainable.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the Word of the Day for September 6th.
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Today's word is inexorable, also pronounced inexorable and spelled I-N-E-X-O-R-A-B-L-E.
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Inexorable is an adjective.
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It's a formal word used to describe something that cannot be stopped or
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Here's the word used in a sentence from The Conversation.
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At the summer solstice, the sun stands still, the meaning of the Latin solstice, and begins its progression back toward the south.
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Days shorten, shadows lengthen, and the cold and dreariness of winter returns.
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Europeans across the entire continent have noted this simple and inexorable cycle for millennia.
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Neolithic monuments such as Ireland's Newgrange and England's Stonehenge, both of which date from around 5,000 years ago, were built to mark solstices.
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You can beseech and implore until you're blue in the face, but that won't have any effect on something that's inexorable.
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The word inexorable, which has been part of the English language since the 1500s, was originally often applied to people, desires, or actions held to be particularly resistant to persuasion or dissuasion.
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In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, for example, Romeo declares that his intents are more fierce and more inexorable far than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
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These days, it's usually used to describe the progression of something through time or toward an end result, commonly modifying nouns like drift, pull, rise, march, decline, or tide.
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inexorable comes from the Latin adjective inexorabilis, which is itself a combination of the prefix in-in, meaning not, plus exorabilis, meaning pliant.
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If you're wondering whether English has an exorable meaning capable of being moved by entreaty, indeed it does, though exorable is far less common than its antonym.
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With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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