predestinates

Definition of predestinatesnext
present tense third-person singular of predestinate
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Verb
  • Gartner predicts that organizations prioritizing semantic consistency in their data will see up to 80% improvement in AI model accuracy and up to 60% in cost reductions by 2027.
    Emma McGrattan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Yardeni predicts that the S&P 500, which was at around 7,500 on Wednesday, will rally to 8,250 by the end of the year.
    Steve Kopack, NBC news, 27 May 2026
Verb
  • Winmill forecasts a 10% to 15% decline during the month, with investors selling as prices level off.
    Tim Maxwell, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The report also forecasts Arctic sea ice to continue to shrink in the summer.
    Seth Borenstein, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 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
  • The message here is not that childhood trauma dooms someone to cancer, says Fuller-Thompson.
    Rob Williams, EverydayHealth.com, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Legacy homer dooms Lake Ridge Shayla Gonzalez broke open a 1-1 tie with a 3-run home run in the top of the seventh inning and Mansfield Legacy hung on to beat Mansfield Lake Ridge 4-3 in a District 3-6A showdown on Tuesday night.
    Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 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
  • The rehearsal augurs Starship’s coming test flight—its 12th—which will mark the first time the latest version of vehicle is put through its paces.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
  • But some parishioners remain optimistic that this period of intense hardship finally augurs the end of the regime.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Predestinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinates. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.

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