destine

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Recent Examples of destine In 2024, the ASF share destined for international co-productions resulted in projects involving over 40 countries. Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 May 2025 The same day, John told ABC News that his brother was destined to become a religious leader. Jordana Comiter, People.com, 9 May 2025 Los Angeles and Pope Leo XVI One way or another, billowing white smoke was destined to be on my agenda yesterday. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025 Louis Prevost said his brother seemed to always know his calling, and that as young as 4 or 5, the family knew he was destined for great things in the Catholic Church. Alex Perez, ABC News, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for destine
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Verb
  • Throughout last season, when the Chiefs were attempting to become the NFL’s first three-peat champion in the Super Bowl era, everyone in the city — players, fans and employees of the team — had to start contemplating if Arrowhead’s future was doomed.
    Nate Taylor, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Either of these is enough to doom Democrats’ already-tenuous chance at the Governor’s Mansion.
    South Florida Sun Sentinel, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2025
Verb
  • One of the stars, Craig Wallace, has been ordained.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • Married men can be ordained as deacons while women cannot, although historians say women served as deacons in the early Christian church.
    Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Unlike the characters marked for death in a Final Destination film, this sixth installment in the franchise just felt fated to live, overcoming obstacle after obstacle that might have killed other movies.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
  • Perhaps this show, too, is a dream—one from which we are fated to wake sooner, rather than later.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025

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“Destine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destine. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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