predestinates

present tense third-person singular of predestinate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinates
Verb
  • Thursday and Friday will be dry and warm, with temperatures in the low 80s, NWS predicts on its website.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2025
  • They are being tested as clinical trials, though some companies could begin to get approval in the next few years, Synchron CEO Tom Oxley predicts.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 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
  • But a second round of arguments is a rare occurrence at the Supreme Court, and sometimes presages a major change by the justices.
    MARK SHERMAN, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2024
Verb
  • John Hollinger forecasts how the bottom of the Western Conference will play out.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Deutsche Bank forecasts the company’s third-quarter earnings to come in line with expectations, while its initial 2026 look will support current sell-side consensus.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 8 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 15 Oct. 2025.

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