as in to doom
to determine the fate of in advance
since the dawn of the ages he was foredoomed to become king one day
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Maybe she was doomed, and her children doomed, to be held captive to this fate forever.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
22 Mar. 2026 -
The ability to read and comprehend is a foundational skill without which students are doomed to fail in mathematics and other subject matters.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Should the Warriors want to play their 38-year-old superstar in the late stages of a campaign that appears destined to end in the play-in tournament?—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Zazie Beetz trained for months to pull off the admittedly jaw-dropping (and often jaw-shattering) fight sequences, and if every actor is now destined to become an action star for 15 minutes, the Atlanta veteran has earned her spotlight.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2026
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Watch out for whatever is fated this go-around.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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Sparkling Miss Camberg was fated to wed the man whose name so closely mirrored her own.—
Miranda Seymour,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Mar. 2026
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He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Grand Island in 1994 and served as vicar general and pastor of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary before his 2021 appointment to Colorado Springs, according to the archdiocese.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
26 Mar. 2026
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The church ordained its first female priests in 1994 and its first female bishop in 2015.—
Danica Kirka,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Foredoom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foredoom. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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