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
  • Now, attention is turning to whether sustainability expectations set by major platforms can actually trickle down to reshape fashion into something fundamentally more sustainable—or whether such initiatives are inherently doomed to be disconnected from material change.
    Nicole Rycroft, Sourcing Journal, 19 May 2025
  • David Ramos / Getty Images) Your Next Read Premier League top-five odds: Chelsea in trouble, Nottingham Forest doomed? Champions League final odds, betting predictions: Inter or Paris Saint-Germain?
    Julia Ranney, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • Most of his time was either in Peru or in Rome, so his experience was -- while growing up American, his experience after college and certainly after being ordained a priest was -- was always much more global, much more international.
    Isabel Danzis, ABC News, 11 May 2025
  • But Prevost opposes ordaining women as deacons, for instance, so he's seen as conservative on church doctrine.
    May 8, CBS News, 9 May 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps this show, too, is a dream—one from which we are fated to wake sooner, rather than later.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
  • While the numbers are striking, there’s a growing body of evidence showing that many of these cases may not be genetically fated, but rather could be delayed or prevented altogether by addressing health factors generally within our control.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025

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“Destine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destine. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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