as in to destine
to determine the fate of in advance
we are such good friends, it's almost like we were foreordained to meet
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Recent Examples of foreordain
Wagner commented that in opera the orchestra should act as a medium of premonition, indicating what is foreordained but not yet foreseen.
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Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2024
Before anything else is said about Lana Del Rey’s new album, let it be noted that however well the record came out, it was foreordained to come in second among her artistic works of the past year.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2023
Pelosi is more than happy for additional evidence to be disclosed and for the Senate to call witnesses, even after the House has impeached and when the resolution of the trial is foreordained.
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Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
17 Jan. 2020
The outcome was not foreordained, for either Bork or Mr. Biden.
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Alexander Burns,
New York Times,
7 Sep. 2019
The 41st president, who couldn’t always get his sentences straight, wasn’t foreordained for history’s hall of fame.
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Josef Joffe,
WSJ,
3 Dec. 2018
Aster piles on the personal confrontations and emotional breakdowns, but compounds them with unnerving new hauntings, all the way up to an ending that feels foreordained, but still shattering.
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Tasha Robinson,
The Verge,
8 June 2018
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2024
Before anything else is said about Lana Del Rey’s new album, let it be noted that however well the record came out, it was foreordained to come in second among her artistic works of the past year.
—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2023
Pelosi is more than happy for additional evidence to be disclosed and for the Senate to call witnesses, even after the House has impeached and when the resolution of the trial is foreordained.
—
Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
17 Jan. 2020
The outcome was not foreordained, for either Bork or Mr. Biden.
—
Alexander Burns,
New York Times,
7 Sep. 2019
The 41st president, who couldn’t always get his sentences straight, wasn’t foreordained for history’s hall of fame.
—
Josef Joffe,
WSJ,
3 Dec. 2018
Aster piles on the personal confrontations and emotional breakdowns, but compounds them with unnerving new hauntings, all the way up to an ending that feels foreordained, but still shattering.
—
Tasha Robinson,
The Verge,
8 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreordain
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Polestar 4s destined for the US were built in South Korea, although much of Polestar’s manufacturing is in China.
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The scouting staff Always a moving target and destined to change by fall, the tracking of 2026 eligible prospects was conducted by the following scouts and executives.
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After the war, he was ordained and served as a minister at the Steele Creek Presbyterian Church from 1804 until his death in 1827.
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In 1962, Lazowski was ordained and served as the spiritual leader of Beth Shalom Synagogue in Hartford until 1969.
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Crow-Armstrong’s poor offensive start doomed his chance to start, while the bad national publicity stemming from a viral video of his profane reaction to a harassing female White Sox fan probably didn’t help matters.
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Twentieth Century Fox had bet big on a blockbuster hit, but a real-life tragedy four months earlier ensured the film was doomed to be an also-ran at the box office.
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When Solow died in 2020, Soloviev knew he was fated to take over the business.
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So it was all very fated in that sense.
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