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adjective

as in destined

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verb

past tense of predestine
as in doomed
to determine the fate of in advance our victory in the tournament was seemingly predestined

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Recent Examples of predestined
Adjective
In retrospect, Sumner seemed predestined to become a famous abolitionist lawyer. — Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026 Christo and Jeanne-Claude disregarded all threats of legal action, directing Running Fence to complete its predestined voyage into the sea. — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
There are nights in football when the outcome seems predestined. — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 May 2026 Science, of course, struggles to prove whether that’s predestined in their genes, though some studies suggest that some tendency toward hoarding—put another way, collecting to excess—is heritable. — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026 At the same time, nothing is predestined. — Ray Dalio, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2026 There’s a generic quality both to singer-songwriter Michaelson’s score (a combination of folk and Broadway pop) and to a romance that seems almost mystically predestined. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026 The Lionel Messi-Lamine Yamal connection For believers in the soccer gods, Lamine Yamal's ascent to the upper echelons of the sport could almost seem predestined with Lamine anointed by a Barça icon — Lionel Messi. — Nathalie Sommer, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025 Ferrari Given his name, Adam Driver was seemingly predestined to play the man behind the world's most prestigious sports car. — Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestined
  1. predetermined
  2. destined
  3. foreordained
  4. doomed
  5. possible
  6. probable
Adjective
  • Identity, purpose and engagement don’t disappear at a predetermined age.
    — Meredith Moore, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • On Thursday morning, one of the two landlord representatives, Christina Smyth, resigned, ripping the rent freeze as a predetermined conclusion the board had worked to justify.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026
Definition of predetermined
Verb
  • Is the Moon destined to become an interstellar gas station, a resource to be mined and sold?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • Dealmakers, as is their wont, view Letterboxd as an operation destined to be plugged into a corporate structure, either as a film marketing apparatus or a data trove to power streaming.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 July 2026
Definition of destined
Adjective
  • What unfolds next is both foreordained and unpredictable: a performance superficially the same as any other rendition of the same score, but also profoundly different — wondrous, perhaps, or merely rote.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The film is a tragedy in which everything comes out right: Coppola builds his protagonist’s absurd overreach into a foreordained happy ending, and the movie itself is a happy outcome from the very start.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of foreordained
Verb
  • Impeachments are doomed to fail anyway, because unless the Democrats win 67 Senate seats, there will be no convictions.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
  • Sleeping separately doesn’t mean your relationship is doomed.
    — Cheyenne Buckingham, Washington Post, 7 July 2026
Definition of doomed
Adjective
  • Be sure to cover your head and neck with your arms, and crawl under a sturdy table if possible.
    — CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
  • Probably the producers felt that introducing seven players all at once needed to go as quickly as possible.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 July 2026
Definition of possible
Adjective
  • Verbeek also has lost four key defensemen — captain Radko Gudas, Jacob Trouba, John Carlson and Olen Zellweger — in the past month while adding only journeyman Nick Jensen as a probable replacement.
    — Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Lowe’s matchup is arguably the best for hitting a home run on Saturday’s MLB slate, given the sample sizes of the probable pitchers.
    — Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of probable

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