as in to ordain
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Plant churches do not require a centralized governing body to ordain their founding.—
Samuel Perry,
The Conversation,
20 June 2025 -
Although it’s been ordaining openly gay ministers since the 1970s, UCC isn’t the only church opening its doors to LGBTQ+ worshippers.—
Matt Alderton,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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Rose Byrne knew she was fated to bring the story of Amanda Ogle to the screen.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
6 June 2025
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Instead, the world appears fated to witness the decline or even the collapse of international institutions, which may then be replaced by less influential multinational institutions and intensified fragmentation, competition, and transactionalism.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Lawyers for the National TPS Alliance argued that Noem's decisions were predetermined by President Donald Trump's campaign promises and motivated by racial animus.—
JANIE HAR,
Arkansas Online,
2 Aug. 2025
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In the new era, three tribes are predetermined, and more often than not, one tribe suffers fools and loses half of its members before the merge, leaving the other two tribes untouched.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
9 June 2025
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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
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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
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This data turns us all into numerical grist for the mathematical mill, allowing the powers that be to predict, optimize, and profit with unprecedented scale and success.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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Some have predicted that the feud between Massie and Trump could devolve into a costly intra-party civil war for Republicans.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Aug. 2025
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But our sorry showing in the early rounds undercuts any claim to prognosticating success.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
31 Mar. 2025
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Most other publications didn’t even bother prognosticating.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Your luck in life is predestined in a way.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
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Josh Allen plowed his way through, as if predestined to cross the plane fully upright.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Yet he was not destined for professional life, certainly not in the cotton business that attracted talented young Greeks.—
Gregory Jusdanis,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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But that, of course, was not the only place made-in-China iPhones were destined.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Predestinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinate. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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