preordain
verb
pre·or·dain
ˌprē-ȯr-ˈdān 
preordained; preordaining; preordains
: to decree or ordain in advance : foreordain
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my wife and I are such soulmates, I'm convinced that our marriage was preordained
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The last of the proxy defeats was preordained.
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Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
On many of those Friday nights, their ace pitcher, Whitey Ford, faced our ace, Billy Pierce, but an evening that began with high hopes usually ended in painful reality, like it was preordained by the baseball gods.
—Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
But the agentic future is not preordained.
—Marc Benioff, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
The idea of a hard partition between two ethno-religious states was not preordained.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
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Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
On many of those Friday nights, their ace pitcher, Whitey Ford, faced our ace, Billy Pierce, but an evening that began with high hopes usually ended in painful reality, like it was preordained by the baseball gods.
—Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
But the agentic future is not preordained.
—Marc Benioff, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
The idea of a hard partition between two ethno-religious states was not preordained.
—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for preordain
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“Preordain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preordain. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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