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Recent Examples of predetermination
The presiding judge granted Sweeney's attorney's request to change the charge to second-degree murder or manslaughter as the court lacked sufficient evidence to try him for first-degree murder since predetermination was not established.
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Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
He was also accused of failing to respect and comply with the law by denying due process to litigants and lawyers and demonstrating a bias or predetermination for certain cases.
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Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2025
From there we’re introduced to the Time Variance Authority where Loki is taken for messing with predetermination—a strict timeline set up by the powerful and mysterious Time Keepers—and introduced to Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson).
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Erik Kain,
Forbes,
8 June 2021
Both seasons of The Umbrella Academy raise questions about the nature of time travel (as presented in the series) and the tension between choice and predetermination.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
3 Aug. 2020
There is comfort in subsuming your sense of individuality to a larger sentiment of prescription and predetermination.
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Jia Tolentino,
The New Yorker,
1 Nov. 2019
Yet the movie has a mythic thrust that’s partly due to its almost playful manipulation of time, its silent flash-forwards lending the story a feeling of futility and predetermination.
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Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2018
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
He was also accused of failing to respect and comply with the law by denying due process to litigants and lawyers and demonstrating a bias or predetermination for certain cases.
—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2025
From there we’re introduced to the Time Variance Authority where Loki is taken for messing with predetermination—a strict timeline set up by the powerful and mysterious Time Keepers—and introduced to Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson).
—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
8 June 2021
Both seasons of The Umbrella Academy raise questions about the nature of time travel (as presented in the series) and the tension between choice and predetermination.
—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
3 Aug. 2020
There is comfort in subsuming your sense of individuality to a larger sentiment of prescription and predetermination.
—
Jia Tolentino,
The New Yorker,
1 Nov. 2019
Yet the movie has a mythic thrust that’s partly due to its almost playful manipulation of time, its silent flash-forwards lending the story a feeling of futility and predetermination.
—
Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predetermination
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At a moment when technology companies were promising to bring people closer together, David Fincher’s acerbic drama about the founding of Facebook had a darker theory about why people wanted to connect in the first place.
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Susan Brands has a theory for why people come out of the woodwork seeking handouts from lottery winners.
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The presumption of innocence was used by Queiroz to justify the decision to include Partey in Ghana’s World Cup squad and by Spanish club Villarreal to justify his signing last summer as a free agent.
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The letter makes presumptions about herbicides and pesticides that do not line up with its proposal outlined on a website detailing the training center project, the statement said.
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The brand positions the fabric and fit as its answer to the old assumption that hemp-heavy shirts could not feel comfortable enough for everyday wear.
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This morning favors gentle starts and better listening, while the afternoon asks us to slow replies, check assumptions, and make our tone easier to understand.
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The goal of the platform is to support the entire drug lifecycle—from early-stage laboratory discovery and hypothesis generation to clinical trials and final commercialization.
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The working hypothesis behind the cluster is that the first case acquired hantavirus while on land, before boarding the cruise ship, the WHO said.
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By these arguments, an AI proof of a mathematical conjecture that has stubbornly resisted human efforts would be useful only if comprehensible to humans.
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After weeks of such conjecture, multiple outlets as well as South Florida Sun Sentinel sources now say that Celtics’ forward Jaylen Brown is on the table in trade talks, with the notion of adding more than draft capital as a Milwaukee Bucks focus.
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There's been growing speculation that the two could get married during Independence Day weekend at Madison Square Garden, one of the world's most famous arenas.
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The Dark Carnival event has finally launched in Dota 2, after months of speculation and waiting.
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What The Bears Have Backwards The dominant market read since early 2026 has been that AI agents automate the seats and hollow out enterprise software, the thesis behind the software selloff some on the Street nicknamed the SaaSpocalypse.
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Not everyone sees that as a vindication of Greenspan's thesis, however.
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What becomes alarmingly evident through the key assumptions check is how many of the current responses expect a quick resolution of the conflict — a supposition that is unsound, or at least unsupported.
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Zlotnikov wrote that the condition was likely caused by a mutation that had occurred very early in embryonic development, a supposition that was confirmed decades later by genetic analysis.
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“Predetermination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predetermination. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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