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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
  • Fast-forward to today, and the latest Mini to come from Wood & Pickett is destined for the garage of model, fashion entrepreneur – and noted car guy – David Gandy.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Otherwise, they are destined to be remembered as useless and timid wimps as the U.S. was slouching toward a dictatorship.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • But in 1931, the German mathematician Kurt Gödel demonstrated that any interesting system of mathematical axioms is doomed to incompleteness.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
  • The Hornets nearly lost the program in the early 1990s amid sweeping budget cuts that doomed a number of statewide college football programs in California, but a student referendum saved the sport.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Craig was ordained as a Baptist preacher, a calling that would prove pivotal not only in his spiritual community but also in Kentucky's civic and economic development, then a rugged territory of the United States.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • But highly damaged Mark, whose upbringing was evidently a nightmare of abuse, has found salvation, or at least escape: He’s ordained himself a servant of the Lord, holding improvisational services in the prison chapel to a paltry flock.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • Are we fated to suffer an endless cosplay of the golden era?
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 25 June 2025
  • But Abbott in a statement that accompanied his veto late Sunday, June 22, said the legislation, Senate Bill 3, was well-intentioned but fated to spend tied up in legal battles.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2025

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