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verb

past tense of predestine

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestined
Verb
  • The two floors dedicated to offices — including Martin’s personal one — as well as a basement space destined to content production and the brand’s archives are also undergoing the finishing touches.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Detroit’s playoff drought looks destined to go to nine years, the second-longest active drought of any team (Buffalo is the longest at 14), and tied for the fourth-longest drought in NHL history.
    Max Bultman, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • An away victory would have doomed Peru completely but now the race to qualify, for that play-off spot at least, is back on.
    Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • But without empathy, responsibility, agency, and free will he is doomed to remain a wooden facsimile.
    Ann Kowal Smith, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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
Adjective
  • Before scrambling to meet a tight turnaround, take a step back and assess what’s actually possible.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • And Cannes — for all its flaws, its chaos, its maddening logistics — remains the one place each year where that future still feels genuinely possible.
    Martin Moszkowicz, Deadline, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Leafs were always more probable than not to lose this series and the odds now are greatly stacked against them.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • Without human oversight, brand language may drift toward the generic, the probable, and the forgettable.
    Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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“Predestined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestined. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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