PREDETERMINATIONS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

predeterminations

noun

plural of predetermination

as in assumptions

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Noun

If an employee hesitates or overcommits, avoid making assumptions or asking defensive questions.

— Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
The alternative is to allow each side’s strategy to reinforce the other’s worst assumptions until escalation begins to look less like a choice than an inevitability.

— Hamidreza Azizi, Time, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of assumptions

Noun

Without a direct and blanket statement in the tradition providing a rationale, European and Indian scholars have proposed a variety of theories to explain Hindu divine morphology.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026
Astrophysicists have several theories for what dark matter could be.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of theories

Noun

Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
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.

— Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026

Definition of presumptions

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The models have to suss them out by taking actions in the game, seeing what happens, forming hypotheses, and then taking more actions to test those theories.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026
Microsoft is already deploying autonomous threat-detection capabilities capable of continuously investigating incidents, developing hypotheses, gathering supporting evidence and identifying malicious activity that traditional processes can miss.

— Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of hypotheses

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Such speculations reflect the richness of possibilities that the new work opens up.

— Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
Their speculations, although deemed inaccurate by later historians, helped shape popular understandings of the ancient druids.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026

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