fait accompli
Example Sentences
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Yet the majority is trying to avoid a fait accompli.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Even though everyone assumed his return was a fait accompli, there were a few red flags around.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2025
Or at least not as much of a fait accompli as we’ve seen in the recent past.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2025
If we find in coming months or years that any of the 12 dead at the Downs tested hot, then we can mark the FTC's ruling as the moment of fait accompli.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2023
He also plays the old trick of presenting as a fait accompli what is, in fact, the nub of the argument, and to give the force of inevitability to something contingent.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
