as in to ordain
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Born in Dover, Delaware, Hutchins began preaching at just 8 years old and was ordained by age 12.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025 -
Image In addition to learning his lines, Wallace became ordained via an online application approved by the District of Columbia.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
Verb
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One saga examined closely by Olley as part of the research told the story of a fetus, still in his mother's womb, who ends up fated to avenge his father, being inscribed even before birth into complex social and political dynamics of kinship, feuds and violence.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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Venus’ alignment with Neptune makes a love affair seem fated.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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This arrangement is akin to putting the wolf in charge of the hen house — the conclusion seems predetermined.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2025
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Another class action lawsuit filed in November alleged that was a fraud as it was predetermined who would win.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
15 May 2025
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Wagner commented that in opera the orchestra should act as a medium of premonition, indicating what is foreordained but not yet foreseen.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2024
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February, 2022, was no more inevitable or foreordained than the U.S. invasion of Iraq, in 2003.—
Keith Gessen,
The New Yorker,
12 June 2023
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Clean energy installations, including solar, will continue, if more slowly than previously predicted.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
13 June 2025
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Prices could further spike, however, if Iran targets Saudi Arabia’s oil supplies or creates shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, through which almost 25% of total global oil consumption flows, with some experts predicting $100 oil per barrel.—
Mathias Hammer,
semafor.com,
13 June 2025
Verb
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But our sorry showing in the early rounds undercuts any claim to prognosticating success.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
31 Mar. 2025
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Most other publications didn’t even bother prognosticating.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Your luck in life is predestined in a way.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
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Josh Allen plowed his way through, as if predestined to cross the plane fully upright.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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They were led nonetheless by an exceptional cadre of junior officers, thirty of whom would become generals, including eighteen destined to be full generals, the army's highest rank.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
13 June 2025
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Everything’s Going to Be Great suggests that all of this is destined to become fodder, someday, for Les’ brilliant creative career.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
13 June 2025
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“Predestinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestinate. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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