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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. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 The Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February, 2022, was no more inevitable or foreordained than the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in 2003. Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023 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 This is hardly foreordained, especially if the U.S. reasserts itself on the global stage and rallies like-minded nations against the revisionists. The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
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Verb
  • Fast-forward to today, and the latest Mini to come from Wood & Pickett is destined for the garage of model, fashion entrepreneur – and noted car guy – David Gandy.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Otherwise, they are destined to be remembered as useless and timid wimps as the U.S. was slouching toward a dictatorship.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • Craig was ordained as a Baptist preacher, a calling that would prove pivotal not only in his spiritual community but also in Kentucky's civic and economic development, then a rugged territory of the United States.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • But highly damaged Mark, whose upbringing was evidently a nightmare of abuse, has found salvation, or at least escape: He’s ordained himself a servant of the Lord, holding improvisational services in the prison chapel to a paltry flock.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • But in 1931, the German mathematician Kurt Gödel demonstrated that any interesting system of mathematical axioms is doomed to incompleteness.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • The Hornets nearly lost the program in the early 1990s amid sweeping budget cuts that doomed a number of statewide college football programs in California, but a student referendum saved the sport.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Are we fated to suffer an endless cosplay of the golden era?
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2025
  • But Abbott in a statement that accompanied his veto late Sunday, June 22, said the legislation, Senate Bill 3, was well-intentioned but fated to spend tied up in legal battles.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2025

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“Foreordain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreordain. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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