predestinates

present tense third-person singular of predestinate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinates
Verb
  • Swain predicts that within a decade, the total size of the three classes of directs will be attracting the same annual volume of new funds as traditional PE commands today.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The firm predicts that the music and podcast streamer can raise subscription prices over the next few months, which should help lift shares.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 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
  • By 2027, about 50% of enterprises are expected to deploy AI agents, and a McKinsey report forecasts that by 2030, as much as 30% of all work could be carried out by AI agents.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • AccuWeather forecasts a high of 59 degrees with partly cloudy skies for Halloween in Louisville.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Yet, the lack of quality writing and fresh ideas (or even inspired ways to connect to the source material) dooms the project.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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 4 Nov. 2025.

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