as in to destine
to determine the fate of in advance
religious sects that believe that an individual's salvation has been predetermined by God
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By the finale, the choices our main trio make feel inevitable, almost predetermined.
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Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
More gracefully and graciously, it could be described as avos, a word for the Russian attitude of ignoring the possibility of negative outcomes, with the belief that luck predetermines the result anyway.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
The West’s twentieth-century economic success was not predetermined.
—Liaquat Ahamed, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
While caterpillars metamorphosing into butterflies, or tadpoles evolving into frogs, may be familiar developmental transformations, there are few instances where organisms change in ways that are not predetermined.
—Peter A Noble, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2024
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Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
More gracefully and graciously, it could be described as avos, a word for the Russian attitude of ignoring the possibility of negative outcomes, with the belief that luck predetermines the result anyway.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
The West’s twentieth-century economic success was not predetermined.
—Liaquat Ahamed, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022
While caterpillars metamorphosing into butterflies, or tadpoles evolving into frogs, may be familiar developmental transformations, there are few instances where organisms change in ways that are not predetermined.
—Peter A Noble, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2024
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The pass-happy approach seemed destined to doom the Trojans until midway through the third quarter, when Moss dropped back on fourth and nine, in desperate need of a spark.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Noa seems destined for much greater things than working at the DMV.Joe Otterson, Variety, 1 Nov. 2024
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Frustrations about the slow pace of reform bubbled into the open during the assembly when the pope’s doctrine adviser ruled out ordaining women as deacons and then failed to turn up to a meeting on the topic.Christopher Lamb, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
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Born in Poland in 1920 but not ordained a priest until after World War II, the master of at least a dozen languages was elected Oct. 16, 1978 — making him among the youngest popes in history — amid much jubilation from Chicago’s Polish American community, which was the largest outside Warsaw.Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
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The pass-happy approach seemed destined to doom the Trojans until midway through the third quarter, when Moss dropped back on fourth and nine, in desperate need of a spark.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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While the Iran hostage crisis also doomed Carter’s reelection bid, a third-party candidate didn’t help him either.Greg McKenna, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
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