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Recent Examples of foreordained
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
16 Oct. 2024
The film is a tragedy in which everything comes out right: Coppola builds his protagonist’s absurd overreach into a foreordained happy ending, and the movie itself is a happy outcome from the very start.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2024
Her foray into television, which started in 2017, was not exactly foreordained.
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Tammy Lagorce,
New York Times,
14 May 2024
And that success is far from foreordained.
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Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2022
For all the talk of Senate traditions, the outcome seems pretty foreordained if the Democrats win a majority and the intractable McConnell continues as GOP leader.
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Walter Shapiro,
The New Republic,
17 Aug. 2020
Yet even now, Deng’s warning holds: an Asian century is neither inevitable nor foreordained.
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Lee Hsien Loong,
Foreign Affairs,
4 June 2020
Adjective
What unfolds next is both foreordained and unpredictable: a performance superficially the same as any other rendition of the same score, but also profoundly different — wondrous, perhaps, or merely rote.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
16 Oct. 2024
The film is a tragedy in which everything comes out right: Coppola builds his protagonist’s absurd overreach into a foreordained happy ending, and the movie itself is a happy outcome from the very start.
—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2024
Her foray into television, which started in 2017, was not exactly foreordained.
—
Tammy Lagorce,
New York Times,
14 May 2024
And that success is far from foreordained.
—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
4 Aug. 2022
For all the talk of Senate traditions, the outcome seems pretty foreordained if the Democrats win a majority and the intractable McConnell continues as GOP leader.
—
Walter Shapiro,
The New Republic,
17 Aug. 2020
Yet even now, Deng’s warning holds: an Asian century is neither inevitable nor foreordained.
—
Lee Hsien Loong,
Foreign Affairs,
4 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreordained
Adjective
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In retrospect, Sumner seemed predestined to become a famous abolitionist lawyer.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude disregarded all threats of legal action, directing Running Fence to complete its predestined voyage into the sea.
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These 5-inch shorts are destined to become a summer wardrobe staple thanks to their 100 percent nylon material, which repels water and stains.
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Indeed, anything created so close to a black hole’s event horizon seems almost destined to fall victim to its immense gravity.
Adjective
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These vehicles are not fully autonomous, but independently follow a predetermined route.
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The acquisition comes after an agreement between the two companies in April that gave SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor at a predetermined valuation.
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The bill has already passed the House but would otherwise almost certainly be doomed in the upper chamber due to Republicans’ razor-thin majority.
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Argentina were dysfunctional and doomed.
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John Rahimi, Raymond Grieshaber, and Conrad Espino were ordained on Saturday morning during a ceremony at Holy Name Cathedral on the city's Near North Side.
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The award-winning scholar was the first American ordained as a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition after studying under the 14th Dalai Lama, close friend Tenzin Gyatso, as noted in a 1996 New York Times profile.
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