foregone conclusion
noun
1
: a conclusion that has preceded argument or examination
2
: an inevitable result : certainty
the victory was a foregone conclusion
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And that is why Tuesday’s news was such a foregone conclusion.
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Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Signing the Littleton native seemed a foregone conclusion after his Homegrown status left him ineligible for the 2025 MLS SuperDraft.
—Braidon Nourse, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
Working from a short story by Isaac Asimov and the novel The Positronic Man, by Asimov and Robert Silverberg, Nicholas Kazan has concocted a surprisingly mechanical screenplay that marches through the decades toward a foregone conclusion without any sense of fun or inventiveness about the future.
—Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
Sensitive to losses and suffering, both said they are motivated by the belief that magnitude of destruction this week in Los Angeles and Altadena is not a foregone conclusion.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Signing the Littleton native seemed a foregone conclusion after his Homegrown status left him ineligible for the 2025 MLS SuperDraft.
—Braidon Nourse, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
Working from a short story by Isaac Asimov and the novel The Positronic Man, by Asimov and Robert Silverberg, Nicholas Kazan has concocted a surprisingly mechanical screenplay that marches through the decades toward a foregone conclusion without any sense of fun or inventiveness about the future.
—Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
Sensitive to losses and suffering, both said they are motivated by the belief that magnitude of destruction this week in Los Angeles and Altadena is not a foregone conclusion.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Foregone conclusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foregone%20conclusion. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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