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US
/əˈvɛntʃuəɫ, iˈvɛntʃuəɫ/
]
[ UK /ɪvˈɛntʃuːəl/ ]
[ UK /ɪvˈɛntʃuːəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating
if this trend continues it is not reasonable to expect the eventual collapse of the stock market
hope of eventual (or ultimate) rescue
How To Use eventual In A Sentence
- You can do a lot of that from our facility, but eventually a mobile system to inspect parts on wing is where we are going to be positioned.
- The world will eventually reabsorb these problems, long before they come to our shores. Times, Sunday Times
- The Subaru then veered across the road and hit a telegraph pole, eventually becoming lodged between the pole and a tree.
- Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
- If you overfish the lake eventually there will be no fish left. A big F-ing deal: the distinguishing characteristics of the HCR bill
- Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion. Postmodernism
- Instead, they've argued, companies are more like biological organisms - living things that learn, evolve, and eventually die.
- Fortunately, says Burtch, nearly all crowdfunded ventures - more than 95 percent - do deliver promised goods to their backers eventually.
- Faced with difficulties from recalcitrant landowners and political opponents, the scheme eventually necessitated financial rescue by the king himself.
- Businesses and service organizations were losing employees and customers weekly, daily, and eventually hourly.