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predestined

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verb

past tense of predestine

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestined
Verb
  • The Olympics had seemed almost destined for Wedding.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
  • But my favourite writer was destined to become a movie star.
    hazlitt.net, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • By design, these committees are doomed to fail.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Bieber lost for the year The Guardians’ season felt doomed even before their home opener when ace Shane Bieber was lost for the year to Tommy John surgery on his right elbow.
    Jason Lloyd, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • What unfolds next is both foreordained and unpredictable: a performance superficially the same as any other rendition of the same score, but also profoundly different — wondrous, perhaps, or merely rote.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The film is a tragedy in which everything comes out right: Coppola builds his protagonist’s absurd overreach into a foreordained happy ending, and the movie itself is a happy outcome from the very start.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Citing the sheriff's office, WESH reported that deputies initially responded to a report of a possible shooting at the couple's home in Orlo Vista, just west of Orlando, at around 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Russian troops often carve that backs off their assault cars’ cabs in order to facilitate a quick exit, so there was nothing but a possible thin screen to stop an FPV that barreled toward the anti-tank mine resting in the back of one idling Lada.
    David Axe, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Next week, the Mavericks will strive to fend off a pair of sub-.500 clubs, the 23-51 Brooklyn Nets and the 35-38 Atlanta Hawks, at home in American Airlines Arena before heading to Tinseltown to suit up against another probable lower playoff seed in the West, the 42-31 L.A. Clippers.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Will regulatory agencies translate the pro-innovation rhetoric of their probable leaders into concrete, consistent rules that the industry can rely on?
    Tonya M. Evans, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Predestined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestined. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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