Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinated
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There’s a generic quality both to singer-songwriter Michaelson’s score (a combination of folk and Broadway pop) and to a romance that seems almost mystically predestined.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026 -
The Lionel Messi-Lamine Yamal connection For believers in the soccer gods, Lamine Yamal's ascent to the upper echelons of the sport could almost seem predestined with Lamine anointed by a Barça icon — Lionel Messi.—
Nathalie Sommer,
CBS News,
1 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The very flying machine that now seemed destined to disintegrate in midair with us and the little girl.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Majors seemed destined for the ranks of Hollywood's A-list before he was arrested following a 2023 altercation with his then-girlfriend.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Jan. 2026
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Pricing is predetermined by TaskEasy using public property details and the consumer’s description of the job that needs to be done.—
Kathy Kristof,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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But all of these interactions were quickly imbued with a set, predetermined meaning.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Prevost was ordained the next June.—
Paul Elie,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Tips for a Brazil Road Trip Divinely ordained or not, our journey left its mark.—
María Cristina Lalonde,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Dec. 2025
Verb
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But 36–23 still taunts and tantalizes us, a magical missing score that reminds every Scorigami devotee that what’s possible isn’t preordained.—
Josh Levin,
The Atlantic,
5 Dec. 2025
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Fans may respond as if the song is preordained; the results of the storyline are not.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
12 Nov. 2025
Verb
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They were doomed to perish in the fires of hell.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
15 Jan. 2026
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Evolutionary biologists have long debated whether hunters or climate change ultimately doomed the woolly rhinoceros.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
14 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Mayor Brandon Johnson predicted a similar fate for the president's latest threat.—
Chris Tye,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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From Carthage there were easily predicted currents and visible land that carried ships from Carthage to Sicily in the best sailing months.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The downside, Xie says, is that productivity-enhancing technology is deflationary — doubly so in China where any sector prioritized by the state is fated toward involution.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Exceptionalism but for being something worse than cursed—fated, maybe—for a specific brand of suffering.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Predestinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinated. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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