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Recent Examples of preordain All of those things have entered the culture and almost feel preordained now. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025 There’s always a chance, nothing is preordained. Carl Anka, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025 For Democrats, this was preordained. Avi Nelson, Boston Herald, 30 Oct. 2024 Fear and divisiveness are not preordained. Michael McDevitt, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for preordain
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Verb
  • On the other hand, from January through June 1, manufacturing employment fell by 5,000 workers while services added 532,000 jobs, casting doubt on the notion that manufacturing is destined to be the high-employment sector.
    Bruce Yandle, Boston Herald, 18 July 2025
  • Coddling Russia and refusing to grant Ukraine its own importance, out of deference to the fact that one was a great power and former superpower while the other was destined to live or die in its shadow, scripted a chronicle of a catastrophe foretold.
    Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
Verb
  • This, in turn, makes the races – which players are doomed to watch without being able to influence what's happening – all the more thrilling.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
  • History has proven time and again, such initiatives are doomed to fail and a colossal waste of money.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2025
Verb
  • There is Chekhov, yes, but in American film the gun going off is ordained by the greater cults of marketable violence.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
  • Many denominations of Christianity do not require the person baptizing someone to be ordained.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • Instead, the world appears fated to witness the decline or even the collapse of international institutions, which may then be replaced by less influential multinational institutions and intensified fragmentation, competition, and transactionalism.
    Oriana Skylar Mastro, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • Their friendship, Jasmine says, has always felt fated.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 9 June 2025

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“Preordain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preordain. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.

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