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adjective

Definition of foreordainednext
as in preordained

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verb

past tense of foreordain
as in destined
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 foreordained
Adjective
Her foray into television, which started in 2017, was not exactly foreordained. — Tammy Lagorce, New York Times, 14 May 2024 With all of those movements, when the central issue was really crystallized as a choice between what is clearly right and just, and what is clearly unjust and wrong and deadly and dangerous, then the outcome becomes foreordained. — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024 As Robinson notes, the story had to go this way because Jacob has a foreordained task in becoming one of the patriarchs of Israel. — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreordained
  1. predestined
  2. destined
  3. predetermined
  4. doomed
  5. ordained
Adjective
  • His paintings and ceramics are layered and collage-like, driven by instinct rather than by a predestined end point.
    — Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Hassouna and co-editor Denis LePaven pace the chronological patchwork of footage less as a story with a predestined shape, and more as shifting tiles of accumulating losses that the audience can traverse without being too overwhelmed.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of predestined
Verb
  • Before the pandemic, nearly 90% of the company’s products were destined for overseas markets.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Avoiding the entire iPad app ecosystem is another choice that might not age well; so is asking developers to jump on board with a device that’s clearly destined to eventually run into the iPad.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of destined
Adjective
  • But Coker said school board members should be able to explore ideas, ask difficult questions, and evaluate options without every preliminary discussion being characterized as a predetermined course of action.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The dual-arm robots use Sereact’s physical AI platform Cortex to identify, grasp and sort returned fashion items without requiring individual training for each product or a predetermined list of SKUs.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of predetermined
Verb
  • And writer Faran Krentcil digs through her dating and designer past to find out whether a partner’s dislike of your fashion sense means the relationship is doomed from the start.
    — InStyle, InStyle, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Those feelings shift and change with age, trending from excitement to doomed from the age range of 10-13 to 19-24.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of doomed
Verb
  • Annie is the latest in a line of women, some 300 in all, scattered across the United States and in at least nine other countries, who in the last two decades have defied the Catholic Church to be ordained as deacons, priests and bishops.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • He was ordained in 2018 after studies at the University of Dallas and Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
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