predestinates

present tense third-person singular of predestinate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinates
Verb
  • By the mid-2030s, the UN predicts that the number of individuals aged 80 and older will outnumber infants.
    Rebecca Cairns, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Child Tax Credit For 2026, Bloomberg predicts the amount of the child tax credit will be $2,200.
    KELLY PHILLIPS ERB, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Next year, Swinburne forecasts the box office could get to $11 billion, which would put it back to its 2019 levels.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Gartner forecasts global spending on generative AI to hit $644 billion in 2025, a 76% jump from last year.
    Jay Limburn, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This potentially dooms them to 48 hours in the nearest town.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Despite concerns that failure to be in the blue reading group in first grade dooms a child’s adult options to a career in coal mining (or worse, a lesser UC), both have been completely self-supporting (and not in the coal-mining industry) since graduating from college.
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 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
Verb
  • For most, such latitude foretells a long stretch to go.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • No scripture foretells GPUs, gradient descent, or multimodal transformers.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Predestinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinates. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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