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fait accompli

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fait accompli

(French ‘accomplished fact’) something that has been done and cannot be undone.



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Europe adjusts itself to a fait accompli, and so does an individual character--until the placid adjustment is disturbed by a convulsive retribution.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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