predetermination

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Recent Examples of predetermination The presiding judge granted Sweeney's attorney's request to change the charge to second-degree murder or manslaughter as the court lacked sufficient evidence to try him for first-degree murder since predetermination was not established. Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024 From there we’re introduced to the Time Variance Authority where Loki is taken for messing with predetermination—a strict timeline set up by the powerful and mysterious Time Keepers—and introduced to Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson). Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 June 2021 Both seasons of The Umbrella Academy raise questions about the nature of time travel (as presented in the series) and the tension between choice and predetermination. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2020 There is comfort in subsuming your sense of individuality to a larger sentiment of prescription and predetermination. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019 Yet the movie has a mythic thrust that’s partly due to its almost playful manipulation of time, its silent flash-forwards lending the story a feeling of futility and predetermination. Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predetermination
Noun
  • The previous truth exists as a thorough rejection of modern economic theory promoted by individuals within the Keynesian, monetarist, and Austrian schools.
    John Tamny, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
  • One longtime, highly successful coach has a theory about what has helped McDermott evolve professionally.
    Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Bluntly put, longstanding assumptions and presumptions about American power, purpose, policy, and strategy in the world’s most economically dynamic region are about to go out the window.
    Evan A. Feigenbaum, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • And remember, and this is not just a small thing, the fundamental concept of American justice is the presumption of innocent...until you're proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Humans will glance at another human and make a broad assumption about the emotional state of that person by merely observing their face.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But the officials and victims assembled in the Situation Room considered whether this assumption was really valid.
    Shane Harris, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The link between nomadic lifestyles and ADHD has been proposed before, but in February, a team led by David Barack applied that hypothesis to foraging.
    Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Reducing the amount of acetaldehyde, the hypothesis goes, should also reduce the physical symptoms caused by its buildup.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The president’s subsequent hasty exile baffled many of his supporters and led to conjecture that perhaps there were incriminating videos of him as well.
    Chris Kraul, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The plot moves along driven by several other flimsy conjectures viewers are asked to accept without substantial evidence other than her convenient discoveries.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • That hasn't stopped speculation or runs to the store for snow supplies.
    Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Beijing's silence follows speculation over Xi Jinping's omission of a traditional phrase in his correspondence with Kim.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 1 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The movement in quantum computing stocks, for now, is more about meme dynamics than proper investment thesis, particularly in a low-volume holiday period like this past week.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
  • For 32 years, starting with a visionary law school thesis, Evan Wolfson worked with singular focus and untiring optimism to change not just the law, but society—pioneering a political playbook for change and sharing its lessons, even now, with countless causes worldwide.
    Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The supposition that the crime was committed accidentally seems equally implausible.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • There weren’t any suppositions or guesses about what somebody was thinking or feeling or looked like or anything like that.
    Barbara Booth, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024

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“Predetermination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predetermination. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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