as in doomed
to determine the fate of in advance
my wife and I are such soulmates, I'm convinced that our marriage was preordained
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Recent Examples of preordained
Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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
The city can request a hearing, Braun’s letter said, but the outcome is preordained.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
The album, Remover explains, flowed out of them in a way that felt almost divinely preordained.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2025
Her stardom, now so apparent, hardly felt preordained.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
Our climate is not preordained to remain hospitable forever.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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
The city can request a hearing, Braun’s letter said, but the outcome is preordained.
—Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2025
The album, Remover explains, flowed out of them in a way that felt almost divinely preordained.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2025
Her stardom, now so apparent, hardly felt preordained.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preordained
Verb
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In hindsight, Kempes — El Matador — was always destined to be the star of the tournament, having won the top goalscorer award in Spain in the two seasons leading up to the competition.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Entrepreneurs who start out with connections to an inner circle are all but destined to gain the right opportunities to achieve success.—
Sarah Maokosy,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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That feeling of walking into a room and having people turn to you with a predetermined respect.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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Uber also penalizes its drivers who cancel trips and can deactivate their accounts if cancellation frequency reaches a predetermined threshold, the complaint states.—
Stuart Dyos,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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But if your data is bad, your AI initiatives are doomed from the start.—
Brian Moore,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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High operation costs and noise concerns doomed the service, which ended in October 2003.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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What unfolds next is both foreordained and unpredictable: a performance superficially the same as any other rendition of the same score, but also profoundly different — wondrous, perhaps, or merely rote.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
16 Oct. 2024
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The film is a tragedy in which everything comes out right: Coppola builds his protagonist’s absurd overreach into a foreordained happy ending, and the movie itself is a happy outcome from the very start.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2024
Verb
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Qualified people who could be priests except for archaic laws that no longer serve us continue to wait to be invited into the ranks of those who have been ordained.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Aug. 2025
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The move also contrasts with Pope Francis, who said no to moving into the papal apartments when he was ordained in 2013, choosing instead a Vatican guesthouse.—
Greg Wehner , Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Outside the home, keep tree branches pruned, and as far away from the house as possible.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Abramov points out that this does not disprove the Mars life explanation, but rather just presents an alternative, albeit much more probable, explanation for the evidence.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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First a look at the problems, and then the probable reasons.—
Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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