as in destined
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as in doomed
to determine the fate of in advance
our victory in the tournament was seemingly predestined
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Verb
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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
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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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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
Adjective
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Costco, Aldi, Walmart and Whole Foods did not immediately respond to USA TODAY's request for comment regarding possible egg limits for customers.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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The unions further contend that the offer fails to consider possible adverse consequences to the government's ability to function; sets an arbitrarily short deadline; and is pretext for removing and replacing workers on an ideological basis, among other things.—
Andrea Hsu,
NPR,
10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But that is the move that appears most probable, according to two people familiar with the tenor of the team’s discussions.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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Officials began spraying brush along evacuation routes last year and added probable encampment spots to the list in January, all of which should now be less likely to ignite for the next several months.—
Blake Nelson,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Predestined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestined. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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