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past tense of preordain

preordained

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adjective

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Recent Examples of preordained
Adjective
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 All of those things have entered the culture and almost feel preordained now. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preordained
Verb
  • Is Robert Livingston’s defense destined to make every QB1 with legs look like the second coming of Haynes King, the Georgia Tech signal-caller who ran wild in CU’s opener?
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The Yankees seem destined for October, but Volpe's struggles could keep them from making a deep run.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • About 20 seconds later, the return capsule separated from the escape tower at a predetermined altitude.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Sweet Spot charges per ounce, rather than charging by a predetermined cost.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The heart of the story involves a romantic epiphany that’s also an unspoken recognition of homosexual desire; Michèle’s matchmaking scheme is a vicarious replacement for something that’s doomed to go unfulfilled.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Bayrou deserves a share of the blame, as his attempts to muster support for €44 billion in drastic spending cuts were doomed from the outset.
    Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The shift has profound implications in House districts across the country, seeping into Democratic primaries as a possible liability for more centrist members.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • New downloads of Weather are no longer possible on Wear OS 6 devices from third-party manufacturers, such as Samsung, OnePlus and others.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Simmons is listed as probable on the Ole Miss injury report.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Worthy’s probable absence should stand to elevate the role of receiver Tyquan Thornton, who joined Kansas City’s practice squad in mid-November.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Preordained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preordained. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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