as in to ordain
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Reforms on the table include how to give greater roles to women in the Catholic Church, including ordaining them as deacons, and the greater inclusion of laity in governance and decision making.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025 -
This explains, if it is granted that the gods ordained some sort of greatness for the play, the nakedness of its verbal intensity.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
31 Jan. 2025
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The team’s research reveals that the males aren’t always fated to become food, however.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Oscar-winning filmmaker Ezra Edelman’s Prince project is joining a select list of documentaries with a dubious distinction – fated not to see the light of day.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
11 Mar. 2025
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Yet the band had predetermined the time frame on the basis of ideas of self-preservation.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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And one benefit of a plot built on relentlessly surreal happenstance is that eventually every new plot development starts to feel like a twist — because nothing is predetermined, and rationality and rigor have already gone out the window.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February, 2022, was no more inevitable or foreordained than the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in 2003.—
Keith Gessen,
The New Yorker,
12 June 2023
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Before anything else is said about Lana Del Rey’s new album, let it be noted that however well the record came out, it was foreordained to come in second among her artistic works of the past year.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2023
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Women possessed by the gods were oracles, predicting the future in cryptic utterances.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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Tremble didn’t have the 2024 season that many predicted.—
Alex Zietlow and,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2025
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Utah The Hotline undoubtedly has a more optimistic view of Utah’s prospects than most others in the prognosticating business.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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That hasn’t stopped our stalwart insiders from viewing them and preferentially voting in 10 Oscar categories (most points for most likely, or most hoped for, to succeed) for your prognosticating pleasure.—
Michael Ordoña,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Nov. 2024
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Though Kendall finished well before Stricker on Sunday, the result felt predestined.—
Jim Owczarski,
Journal Sentinel,
11 June 2023
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Genes do not predestine one individual to complete fewer years of schooling than another or one individual to score higher on a cognitive performance test than another.—
Robbee Wedow,
Scientific American,
26 May 2022
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Since the bill applies retroactively – all the way back to 1965 – it would be destined for serious legal challenges.—
Peter Kwong,
Orange County Register,
10 Mar. 2025
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Including comforting soups and casseroles, a slow cooker twist on a viral recipe, and four creations that are as simple as dump and bake, you’re destined to find a new favorite below.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Mar. 2025
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