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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If you’re doomed to go 4-8 again, give the locals something to cling to while they’re stuck riding over the bumps.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025 -
The combination of strange comments, a clear lack of education and experience, and a disturbing personal history with mental health struggles and domestic problems doomed his campaign.—
Kimberly Ross,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The canonical work of Edward Curtis established the tragic view and elegiac rhetoric of Native people as noble savages unassimilable to Progress and hence destined for cultural, if not biological, extinction.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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The pair's emotional journey was captured in a viral TikTok video with over 1 million likes, a story that internet viewers believe was destined to happen.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Unfortunately, we are fated to see two versions of the same events every time.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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Even still, the property preserves its tropical, midcentury modern inspiration in a way that feels fated never to go out of style.—
Carley Rojas Ávila,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Qualified people who could be priests except for archaic laws that no longer serve us continue to wait to be invited into the ranks of those who have been ordained.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Aug. 2025
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The move also contrasts with Pope Francis, who said no to moving into the papal apartments when he was ordained in 2013, choosing instead a Vatican guesthouse.—
Greg Wehner , Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Foredoom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foredoom. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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