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GRE Verbal Reasoning Section

Understanding 'Eventuating' in Economic Resilience

Very Hard Reading Comprehension Sentence-level Questions

Consider the following passage from a scholarly article on economic resilience:

A principal argument in the field of economic resilience is that societies must not only recover from downturns but also adapt and transform in response to adverse conditions. Resilience, therefore, encompasses not just sustainable recovery, but a proactive evolution of structural and institutional frameworks to mitigate future crises. Critics argue, however, that an exclusive focus on resilience may lead to complacency, narrowing the scope of innovation and eventuating in rigid systems unable to adjust to unprecedented challenges. Thus, the discourse surrounding resilience is replete with tensions: recovery versus adaptation, innovation versus stability, and short-term solutions versus long-term viability.

In this context of economic resilience, the use of the word 'eventuating' serves to emphasize the unforeseen outcomes that may arise from a singular focus on stability. Which of the following sentences best aligns with the author’s use of 'eventuating' in the passage?

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