predestinating

present participle of predestinate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestinating
Verb
  • Robert and Michelle King are known for predicting the future.
    Scarlett Harris, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Even with the benefit of polling data and insights from primaries and historical trends, predicting the winners of traditional political elections is difficult.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One day, his dad, Brian (Palin), shares an old recipe involving rainwater, horse manure and alchemy to create Homunculi – magical prophesying spirits that can predict the future.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Houthis are led by a family of clerical megalomaniacs who have been prophesying apocalyptic war since the early 2000s.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The jet stream picked it up and carried it to the northeast, which is pretty common, and weather models did a pretty good job in forecasting its track into the Bering Sea.
    Rick Thoman, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Still, the organization slashed its 2026 outlook, forecasting the world’s economy will cool.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Every day there are LinkedIn posts, as well as Forbes, NYT, and WSJ articles about the massive capital reallocation by customers and investors to AI from SaaS, foretelling the end of SaaS.
    Barry Libert, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • An optimist would read the internal market action in recent weeks as foretelling an early-cycle reacceleration/reflation dynamic setting up.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Local officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning at Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, the new sanctuary honoring pathbreaking sculptor Alexander Calder, presaging its opening to the public, which is set for September 21.
    News Desk, Artforum, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Consider the two-year cycle of Moore’s Law, which changed the world and inspired new corporate giants while dooming others.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • While in most places these efforts succeeded in the short term, over time the lived realities—particularly the everyday violence—of military rule undermined support for the royal cause, dooming efforts to resuscitate the British Empire in America.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Eagles were not eager to bring him back this season, potentially foreseeing a contract issue and apparently believing his production was replaceable.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Thirteen members of the FOMC predicted 1 or 2 more rate cuts with only 4 members foreseeing no rate change.
    Paul Weinstein Jr, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bank of America Securities analyst Robert Ohmes just downgraded Target from hold to sell, prognosticating another 10-15% share drop.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Predestinating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinating. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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