as in doomed
to determine the fate of in advance
our victory in the tournament was seemingly predestined
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Recent Examples of predestined
Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Ferrari Given his name, Adam Driver was seemingly predestined to play the man behind the world's most prestigious sports car.
—Hannah Kerns, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predestined
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Rather than a bottle destined for the back of a cabinet, Toki Black is positioned as a must‑try for anyone curious about how Suntory can stretch the Toki profile into richer, smokier territory — without losing its easy‑drinking DNA.—
Gina Pace,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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With his matinee idol looks, Withers seems destined to follow the hero's journey on screen.—
Neda Ulaby,
NPR,
19 Sep. 2025
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This final betrayal will be his undoing, as the enraged creature, doomed to live without connection, care, or love, finally snaps and destroys everything Victor holds dear.—
Thomas Page McBee,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Our Mammalian Age The climatic impact of the asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs, while global and catastrophic, was relatively short-lived.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The standard knockout format remains in place for the last three rounds, so the final will continue to be held at a predetermined venue.—
Neel Shelat,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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About 20 seconds later, the return capsule separated from the escape tower at a predetermined altitude.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 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
Adjective
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New frontiers in medical use The ability to control the metamaterial remotely makes new medical applications possible.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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More importantly, Nvidia continues to focus on the entire data center as a single system to ensure that all potential performance bottlenecks are addressed, resulting in the highest possible performance efficiency and ROI.—
Jim McGregor,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The map shows red pins representing incidents that state and federal wildlife biologists have said were confirmed or probable wolf attacks on livestock.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Gabriel Muniz Jimenez, 33, died inside his cell due to a probable drug overdose on May 21, according to a spokesman for the medical examiner's office.—
Vanessa Swales,
jsonline.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Predestined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predestined. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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