as in preordained
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as in destined
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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Recent Examples of predetermined
Rachel Raposas, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
Prescribed processes and predetermined outcomes, rinsed and repeated, with no space for anyone to think, feel or behave differently.
—Lauren Coulman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
The complaint, filed in a federal court in Austin, alleges that Musk falsely claimed the PAC would choose sweepstakes winners randomly when the selections were, in fact, predetermined.
—Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2024
Looking back, my fall from grace was almost predetermined.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2024
How menopause affects you depends partially on genetics, so the intensity of your symptoms is to some degree predetermined.
—Valerie Monroe, Allure, 17 Oct. 2024
Choosing Their Own Career Path Increases Engagement Most organizations have predetermined career paths for employees in alignment with their department’s goals.
—Kate Wieczorek, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
By the finale, the choices our main trio make feel inevitable, almost predetermined.
—Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
Verb
Such jobs generally have predetermined routes, while taxi and ambulance drivers must quickly determine new routes many times a day.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 18 Dec. 2024
Prescribed processes and predetermined outcomes, rinsed and repeated, with no space for anyone to think, feel or behave differently.
—Lauren Coulman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
The complaint, filed in a federal court in Austin, alleges that Musk falsely claimed the PAC would choose sweepstakes winners randomly when the selections were, in fact, predetermined.
—Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2024
Looking back, my fall from grace was almost predetermined.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2024
How menopause affects you depends partially on genetics, so the intensity of your symptoms is to some degree predetermined.
—Valerie Monroe, Allure, 17 Oct. 2024
Choosing Their Own Career Path Increases Engagement Most organizations have predetermined career paths for employees in alignment with their department’s goals.
—Kate Wieczorek, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
By the finale, the choices our main trio make feel inevitable, almost predetermined.
—Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predetermined
Verb
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The Olympics had seemed almost destined for Wedding.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
4 Jan. 2025
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But my favourite writer was destined to become a movie star.—
hazlitt.net,
hazlitt.net,
4 Jan. 2025
Verb
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By design, these committees are doomed to fail.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Adjective
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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
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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 2 Apr. 2025.
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