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predestinated

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There are nights in football when the outcome seems predestined.

— Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 May 2026
Science, of course, struggles to prove whether that’s predestined in their genes, though some studies suggest that some tendency toward hoarding—put another way, collecting to excess—is heritable.

— Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026

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Is the Moon destined to become an interstellar gas station, a resource to be mined and sold?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Dealmakers, as is their wont, view Letterboxd as an operation destined to be plugged into a corporate structure, either as a film marketing apparatus or a data trove to power streaming.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 July 2026

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The ceremony was officiated by actor Adam Sandler, who is legally ordained.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
The Vatican said on July 2 that priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope Leo's approval were in schism with the wider Church and now excommunicated.

— Joshua McElwee, USA Today, 2 July 2026

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In World Cup lore, however, his gallantry is doomed to be overshadowed by that of his fellow-goalkeeper from Cabo Verde, Vozinha, who had already produced an uncanny impersonation of a brick wall on the fourth day of the tournament.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
His time with the Tar Heels seemed to be doomed from the start.

— Noah Vinsky July 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 July 2026

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Before Chinese refining capacity picks up again, the government will want assurances that crude is flowing through the strait unimpeded, Kaneva predicted.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
The figures represented a setback after Central Bank President Luis Pérez predicted in May that monthly inflation would remain in single digits for the rest of the year.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026

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The series isn't afraid of having tough discussions about humanity and if we're fated to destroy ourselves, no matter how many times someone tries to prevent it by changing the course of history.

— Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 July 2026
His cultural determinism appears to leave America fated to endlessly repeat an ancient pattern of conflict.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

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