predestinates

Definition of predestinatesnext
present tense third-person singular of predestinate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinates
Verb
  • The model predicts target expressions from subtle initial facial changes.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The study by Diversified Energy Specialists predicts that smaller fuel dealers will be negatively affected by the policy more than larger companies.
    Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • This data comes as Morgan Stanley forecasts global energy storage installations to reach 600 GWh in 2025, with a further increase to over 900 GWh in 2026.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The International Energy Agency in Paris forecasts a record oil surplus in 2026 as supplies swell from both OPEC+ and its competitors while demand growth slows.
    Grant Smith, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The tension between those companies and the state, which previously issued cease-and-desist letters to prediction markets, potentially presages a state-by-state conflict that plays out across the country.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The question facing Federal Reserve policymakers, who will meet next week, is whether the employment numbers presages a broader slump.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Chief among its villains is Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil, a master manipulator who takes advantage of her former lover Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont’s resurgent desire for her with a wager that ultimately dooms them both.
    Judy Berman, Time, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Without that sense of desperate loneliness, what dooms Frankenstein and the Creature to their deaths?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Thus, Botticelli’s Jesus, who stares at the fruit in deep thought, perhaps prophesies his own death and return, as opposed to the child in the Dreyfus Madonna, who proudly shows the unity of his church to his mother.
    Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Sugar Mountain Ski Resort hosts an Oktoberfest the weekend of October 11 to 12 this year, and the annual Woolly Warm Festival, which has a caterpillar race that prophesies the length of winter, runs October 18 and 19.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023
Verb
  • The evidence foretells what’s in store for the future.
    Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Tarot foretells the news that is manifesting and provides a warning.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • However, the lack of US presence and the diminished interest of private capital augurs negatively for the climate agenda.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Vegas has struggled on offense but rookie RB Ashton Jeanty’s breakout game last week augurs well.
    Greg Cote October 2, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Predestinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinates. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.

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