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verb

past tense of destine

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Recent Examples of destined
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 Astronomers have discovered a rare pair of white dwarfs destined to explode in a spectacular supernova in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood. Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2025 After that, the show was destined for Sondheim’s home turf. Frank Rizzo, Variety, 9 Apr. 2025 Historically, the Intercontinental Championship has served as a crucial proving ground for talents destined for world championship glory. Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025 The story served as a resolution to help prove that America was unique and not destined to experience the interminable rivalries and miseries of the Old World. Made By History, Time, 9 Apr. 2025 Back in February, the judge hinted the defamation claim would survive but the extortion claim appeared destined for dismissal. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2025 On still larger scales, or the scales of cosmic filaments or the space between multiple galaxy clusters, some of them are drifting apart, destined to dissociate. Big Think, 14 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for destined
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
  • And Cannes — for all its flaws, its chaos, its maddening logistics — remains the one place each year where that future still feels genuinely possible.
    Martin Moszkowicz, Deadline, 17 May 2025
  • The question the film ultimately asks is whether a third way is at all possible, leading to a gripping final combat that’s much less a knockout than a bitter victory.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • Chief Justice John Roberts is likely to have cast deciding vote to block religious charter schools.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • Instead of kinship, audiences are likely to feel confusion, as Mahnaz behaves in increasingly self-destructive, irrational ways en route to an ending that provides relief, but no real resolution.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Leafs were always more probable than not to lose this series and the odds now are greatly stacked against them.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • Without human oversight, brand language may drift toward the generic, the probable, and the forgettable.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025

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

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