predestinated

past tense of predestinate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinated
Verb
  • Ferrari Given his name, Adam Driver was seemingly predestined to play the man behind the world's most prestigious sports car.
    Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, Chelsea’s chances could be impacted by an injury crisis in defense, while Cole Palmer and Enzo Fernandez also look destined to miss out.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Prince William and Crown Prince Hussein are both heirs to their country's thrones, meaning their wives are both destined to be queens one day.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Without a fair and open bidding process, potential competitors may not even submit bids, believing the outcome is predetermined.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In LaRoche’s gym, nothing can be predetermined.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • No team in history has won between 38 and 40 games for four straight seasons, yet for the Bulls, this feels almost preordained.
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The first thing to emphasize is that nothing is preordained about market cycles — this one may well never get as wild, lucrative and dangerous as the one 25+ years ago.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For instance, the network included connections between cardinals who worked together in Vatican departments, between those who ordained, or were ordained by, another and between those who were friends.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Mullally was ordained in 2001 and left the government three years later for church roles at Salisbury Cathedral and then becoming only the fourth woman bishop in the Church of England as the Suffragan Bishop of Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But the classic dragon—reptilian, treasure-hoarding, and doomed to be slain—feels distinctly Indo-European.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Hoover ended up throwing for 376 yards and added two more touchdown passes, but for the second time in Big 12 play, he was outplayed by the opposing quarterback and had multiple game-changing turnovers that doomed the Horned Frogs down the stretch.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The number of humans employed by Uber will actually increase as self-driving vehicles become more commonplace, the company’s head of autonomous mobility and delivery Sarfraz Maredia predicted at the World Economy Summit.
    Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • If that happens, Morgan Stanley analysts predicted the market could quickly tumble 11% into a correction.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Schwerner was fated to go down in American history as one of the three Civil Rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • It’s fated for Anderson to thrive.
    Maya AlZaben, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Predestinated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinated. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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