predestinates

present tense third-person singular of predestinate

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • For example, Jung said, if a crosswalk signal usually lasts 20 seconds, but SmartBlink predicts one pedestrian will take 34 seconds based on their first few strides, the system would automatically add 14 more seconds to the crossing signal.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • Investors should prioritize management alignment over earnings forecasts, as executive behavior often predicts future success.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • The audit forecasts the Space Coast will be near capacity by 2028 or 2029, and projects as many as 268 launches by 2030.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026
  • Tech research firm Gartner forecasts that PC and smartphone prices could jump 17% and 13%, respectively, this year from their 2025 levels because of rising chip costs.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 26 June 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 29 Jun. 2026.

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