PREDETERMINATION Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

predetermination

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Definition of predetermination

as in theory

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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. — 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

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Noun

Contrary to the traditional labor theory of value, which calculates the value of a good or service through the amount of labor required to produce it, Poliks and Trillo posit latency and delay to be the true sources of value.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Such questions are critical to a long-standing puzzle of percolation theory, a subfield of probability theory focused on the permeability of networks.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of theory

Noun

The facts of the employment relationship can determine whether the ordinary presumption still controls.

— William Jones, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
How the system would work The initial phase of contract talks still would have union and county representatives seeking to hammer out a mutually beneficial deal, with a presumption that both sides would negotiate in good faith.

— Jon Regardie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of presumption

Noun

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ended the assumption that energy infrastructure could be insulated from geopolitics.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
Zahir Islam, PhD, a physicist at ANL, and co-author of the study, said the finding challenges a common assumption in microelectronics that the substrate beneath a thin film simply acts as a passive support.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of assumption

Noun

Kravitz and Bedert solved Graham’s conjecture for those cases and posted their proof in September 2024.

— Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026
Could Kleist’s conjecture provide a key to their seeming vacancy, their resignation, their helplessness, suggesting that in their benighted condition lies spiritual perfection?

— Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of conjecture

Noun

That one is seeing all stars reprise their roles and came after months of speculation.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
Superman and Batman might be one of the DC Universe’s most famous partnerships, but Robert Pattinson is officially ending speculation that his take on Bruce Wayne would fit in the cinematic world created by James Gunn.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of speculation

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Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Michael Burry is moving up the timeline for his bearish thesis on the fate of the artificial intelligence boom.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
The thesis is that AI is going to shrink the workweek and people will fill the time with concerts and boxing and live theater.

— Lane Brown, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of thesis

Noun

In a sport that generally rewards complete, deep teams, Judge looks like someone who could carry a whole club himself and the Yankees’ results supported that supposition.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
But that was our supposition, not hers, even if borrowing the single’s title for the whole project did seem to make a promise the full record isn’t prepared to deliver on.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026

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