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[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 40 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

While it's one of my favorite words, "inexorably" does not fit here.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

When I was young I heard the phrase "time marches inexorably forward" and I always thought it was one of those really cool phrases everyone knew from some philosopher or like from Shakespeare or some highbrow source of wisdom or wit.

Recently I looked it up, and I can't for the life of me figure out where it came from, or why I thought it was one of those ubiquitous things everyone had heard before. It was probably actually from some X-Men cartoon or something silly but I'll never figure it out.

I wish I could go back in time and figure out where I heard that phrase with that specific wording but, you know what they say....

[–] jim_v@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

This word is new to me! From Dictionary.com:

in a way that is unyielding, unchangeable, or unavoidable.

Fate seemed to be working inexorably, relentlessly, to bring about the dictator's downfall.