predestinates

Definition of predestinatesnext
present tense third-person singular of predestinate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinates
Verb
  • Llewellyn predicts that the digitization of information will continue to proliferate as more AI companies enter the market.
    Sydney Goh, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The system, called FutureVision, is built on a model architecture that predicts how the physical world will change and then converts those predictions into robot actions.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Kent Smetters, faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, forecasts that the meter is now running at roughly $800 million a day.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Goldman Sachs forecasts the market for humanoids could reach $38 billion by 2035.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Polls show voters favor Democrats by a wide margin and Trump’s approval is hovering around 40%, an abysmal level that usually presages major losses for the sitting president’s party.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Fatigue that presages a heart attack doesn’t subside with rest and is disruptive to daily activities.
    Nadine Avola, Flow Space, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • This leads to the fracture in Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship that dooms them all to ruin.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • From the Russian perspective, all of this lines up with Europe’s history and foretells its destiny.
    Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The evidence foretells what’s in store for the future.
    Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • And that really augurs the potential for severe and prolonged enduring instability in this region.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Every day augurs some new threat—to democracy, to decency.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
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“Predestinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinates. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.

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