predestinates

present tense third-person singular of predestinate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinates
Verb
  • The British betting company William Hill predicts that soccer fans will throw back more than 5 million pints of beer in stadiums and fan zones during this year's World Cup.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 30 June 2026
  • Peter Supino of Wolfe Research predicts a WBD-like bidding war for NBCU, with Netflix among those apt to circle.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • The average strategist on Wall Street forecasts the S & P 500 will finish 2026 at 7,807, around 4% higher than where the broad index ended the second quarter.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 2 July 2026
  • On July 4, AccuWeather forecasts a high of 90 degrees in Miami.
    Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • But a lack of accountability presages failure for California’s big reform.
    Rachel Canter, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • An index of 50 is balanced and presages neither economic expansion nor contraction.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • This dooms the kingdom to the tyrannical rule of the villainous Priscilla (Nikki Glaser), who swoops in and snatches the throne.
    Kevin Giraud, Variety, 23 June 2026
  • Either way, Clark’s decision to deny reality and embrace his monster is what dooms him.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
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
  • What that foretells for keeping that split career ongoing into the future remains to be told.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • From the Russian perspective, all of this lines up with Europe’s history and foretells its destiny.
    Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • And one of the tenets of that faith is that God ordains everything.
    Scott Pelley, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In the film’s ferocious climax, Jim is shot but escapes with Selena and Hannah, and the story closes (28 days later) back in the countryside as a jet flies over and augurs their rescue.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 24 June 2026
  • This augurs poorly for yen bulls.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
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“Predestinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinates. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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