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Recent Examples of preordain The last of the proxy defeats was preordained. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025 On many of those Friday nights, their ace pitcher, Whitey Ford, faced our ace, Billy Pierce, but an evening that began with high hopes usually ended in painful reality, like it was preordained by the baseball gods. Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 But the agentic future is not preordained. Marc Benioff, Time, 28 Aug. 2025 The idea of a hard partition between two ethno-religious states was not preordained. Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for preordain
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Verb
  • But a comparable amount is also smuggled out via Chad, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, and Egypt—nearly all destined for the UAE.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Dior’s new soft tote and Loewe’s large Amazona bag felt like instant icons — pieces destined for real-life wear but crafted with couture-level care.
    Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Far from being doomed by his polarizing legacy, Republicans are poised to emerge as the party of the sensible center, representing the non-polarized public, while Democrats, mired in anti-Trump fervor, risk alienating the masses with diminished appeal.
    Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • But three false start penalties doomed the offensive drive and Eget’s fourth-and-2 pass to Cooper Boch was broken up by Utah State’s Brevin Hamblin as time expired.
    Aaron Johnson, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For instance, the network included connections between cardinals who worked together in Vatican departments, between those who ordained, or were ordained by, another and between those who were friends.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Many African Anglican churches refuse to ordain female priests.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Schwerner was fated to go down in American history as one of the three Civil Rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
  • It’s fated for Anderson to thrive.
    Maya AlZaben, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025

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