predestinates

Definition of predestinatesnext
present tense third-person singular of predestinate

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Verb
  • The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world's largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and energy use and pollution will double in just four years as use of artificial intelligence grows.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • Analyzing 111,000 participants over 30 years, researchers found that variety of exercise independently predicts mortality risk, even after controlling for total activity volume.
    Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 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
  • Either way, Clark’s decision to deny reality and embrace his monster is what dooms him.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • The message here is not that childhood trauma dooms someone to cancer, says Fuller-Thompson.
    Rob Williams, EverydayHealth.com, 22 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 image of James’s paper lantern, let go and floating up into the night sky like a second moon, augurs his eventual fleeing from his family.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • 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
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“Predestinates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinates. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.

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