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Recent Examples of predestine Your luck in life is predestined in a way. Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025 Josh Allen plowed his way through, as if predestined to cross the plane fully upright. Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025 As the Bank of Russia pushed interest rates higher, the dollar was predestined to grow since it is often considered a comparatively secure asset. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 George eventually played college football at Iowa and according to his mom, he was almost predestined for the gridiron. Nasha Smith, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024 Mary Barra’s rise from an intern to the corner office of General Motors seems almost predestined. Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2024 Though Kendall finished well before Stricker on Sunday, the result felt predestined. Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2023 Faith Pinho: Paulina and Bobby were predestined in the truest sense of the word. The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023 Assiette Champenoise, Tinqueux Chef Arnaud Lallement’s fate as a chef seemed predestined. Mary Squillace, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestine
Verb
  • As the Cincinnati Reds piled on against Shane Bieber in the second inning of Wednesday’s series finale, the Toronto Blue Jays seemed destined for a series loss.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Houston Astros ace Framber Valdez appears destined for free agency as contract talks are reportedly completely silent.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The mission was doomed, and the satellite crashed back to Earth.
    Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Sep. 2025
  • As a direct result of that hospitality, the women’s respective causes soon become more aligned than either Joan or Alina would have wanted, and any harm visited upon one of them eventually threatens to doom the other as well.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Qualified people who could be priests except for archaic laws that no longer serve us continue to wait to be invited into the ranks of those who have been ordained.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The move also contrasts with Pope Francis, who said no to moving into the papal apartments when he was ordained in 2013, choosing instead a Vatican guesthouse.
    Greg Wehner , Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Libra Season paired with Mars in Scorpio is about teamwork that feels fated, partnerships that feel like destiny, and art that heals the collective.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But these issues will be resolved because more viable donor organs, whether from humans, other species or created in a lab, means fewer people will be fated to sit (and perhaps die) on a transplant waiting list.
    David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Predestine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestine. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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