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verb

past tense of predetermine

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Recent Examples of predetermined
Verb
Of course, seasonal effects are background conditions and not predetermined outcomes, with plenty of mismatches between the historical record and actual market action, a few as recently as last year. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 22 Feb. 2025 Unlike most competitions in spring, the outcome of this one wasn’t predetermined. Tim Britton, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025 Jim was pointing out that predetermined sales can be canceled. Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2025 The Valentine’s Day menu features a $129 predetermined four-course dinner. Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2025 In an old but often-cited Danish study on twins, researchers found that about 25 percent of longevity was heritable—in other words, predetermined by your genes. Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2025 There’s no real shape to their journey, no unexpected pitfalls or subplots or surprises; even a rambunctious interlude in a modern-day supermarket feels curiously predetermined. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2025 Growing up in a house where both of her parents’ income was below the poverty line, Katherine’s success was far from predetermined, and her focus was split between her growth and caring for her siblings. Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025 If you’re predetermined to have finer strands, there are ways of inflating and boosting them to encourage the appearance of thickness, which is where styling and cuts come in. Elle Turner, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predetermined
Verb
  • The two floors dedicated to offices — including Martin’s personal one — as well as a basement space destined to content production and the brand’s archives are also undergoing the finishing touches.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Detroit’s playoff drought looks destined to go to nine years, the second-longest active drought of any team (Buffalo is the longest at 14), and tied for the fourth-longest drought in NHL history.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • An away victory would have doomed Peru completely but now the race to qualify, for that play-off spot at least, is back on.
    Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • But without empathy, responsibility, agency, and free will he is doomed to remain a wooden facsimile.
    Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The presence of at least six US B-2 stealth bombers in the Indian Ocean and a second aircraft carrier in the Middle East only fueled speculation in Israel that a strike was not only possible, but increasingly probable.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In Europe, projections showed a probable increase in Ambrosia—or ragweed pollen—also linked to rising temperatures.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
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

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“Predetermined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predetermined. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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