as in dooms
to determine the fate of in advance
his extreme height seemed to destine him for a career in basketball
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Chief among its villains is Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil, a master manipulator who takes advantage of her former lover Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont’s resurgent desire for her with a wager that ultimately dooms them both.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
28 Nov. 2025 -
Without that sense of desperate loneliness, what dooms Frankenstein and the Creature to their deaths?—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
14 Nov. 2025
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“Destines.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destines. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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