predestinates

present tense third-person singular of predestinate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinates
Verb
  • Whether the virtual particles are really there or not, the math predicts exactly what researchers observe in the real world.
    Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Tom Lee, head of research at Fundstrat, predicts that the S&P 500 could reach 7,000 by year-end.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 3 Oct. 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
  • Much of the state normally expects its first frost around this time, but this year frost could be delayed until early to mid-November, as the Climate Prediction Center forecasts warmer-than-normal October temperatures.
    Brandi D. Addison, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Cox Automotive forecasts sales of EVs hit 410,000 during the third quarter, up 21% from a year earlier.
    Michael Wayland, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To find the killer, Sherlock Holmes and Watson will have to brave desolate moors before a family curse dooms the newest heirs.
    Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • This potentially dooms them to 48 hours in the nearest town.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 3 Sep. 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
  • 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
Verb
  • 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 6 Oct. 2025.

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