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Recent Examples of predetermination
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
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.
—Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024
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
Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2025
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.
—Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024
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
Noun
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Lewis links our veneration of individual genius to the popularity of the Great Man theory of history.—
S. C. Cornell,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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By cultivating a multitude of such microbial habitats, the researchers can compare them and develop theories of how ecological communities work.—
Gabriel Popkin,
Quanta Magazine,
16 June 2025
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The presumption in this case is that the firm is delivering a message its clients want to see permeate.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Its presumptions about free speech match those of our time, but not those of their own.—
Fara Dabhoiwala,
Harpers Magazine,
4 June 2025
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Those pages are a garbled mess, and Thomas spends much of them starting from the assumption that his conclusions are true.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
27 June 2025
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However, that was based on the assumption that the district would receive $300 million in additional funding from the state or the city, which hasn’t materialized.—
Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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But 63% of respondents rated call spoofing among their top five challenges in outbound voice and the second most common hypothesis as to why existing customers are not answering calls.—
James Garvert,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Oddly enough, a different kind of neutrino, called a tau neutrino, is one hypothesis that some scientists have put forth as the cause of the anomalous signals.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
20 June 2025
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In the absence of a culprit, rumor, speculation and conjecture took hold amid a press feeding frenzy.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
25 June 2025
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With a sense of flair and confidence, many of these prognostications can be easily misread as somehow a bushel of facts and knowns, rather than a bundle of opinions and conjecture.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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And Princess Beatrice’s newest public appearance only added to that speculation.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
21 June 2025
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Online speculation about how the error happened flooded the comments.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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Preparing to deliver her pivotal monologue that would serve as a thesis for the entire season.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
19 June 2025
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But Lee’s thesis is that people who once watched sports on TV aren’t watching anymore because the cost is too high.—
Alex Sherman,
CNBC,
19 June 2025
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In Beth Is Dead, a new YA thriller out Jan. 6, that's exactly the supposition at the heart of this reimagining of Louisa May Alcott's literary classic.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
11 June 2025
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That’s a supposition supported, if not proven, by increases in U.S. imports from Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan and other countries corresponding to declines in specific commodities from China.—
Ken Roberts,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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“Predetermination.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predetermination. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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