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eventually

/ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/ adverb B1
  1. In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks. · Everyone's true colors will be revealed eventually.· She didn't arrive. Eventually, we started without her.
  2. For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions. · Eventually, all prime numbers are odd.
  3. Possibly, potentially, perhaps. · I will come eventually, but haven't decided yet.
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“He said that letters to the Hôtel du Louvre, Paris, would eventually reach him.”
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 39 · B2
Eventually, as we know, she adopted the expedient of cutting out the words which would form the message, and addressing the letter in a disguised hand.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 210 · C1
He has rushed about the moor in a crazy state and eventually fallen over here and broken his neck.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 170 · C1
Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him.”
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 9 · C1

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