destine
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A checkup in the womb Is the unborn baby healthy, or does a defect destine it to an early death or a life of debilitating illness?
From Time Magazine Archive
Blake Hamilton and crew have done an outstanding job building and maintaining what is destine become a Lone Star icon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Mussolini was believed to favor the Council, there was a rustle of Fascist surprise last week when he seemed to destine the Assembly to succeed the Chamber of Deputies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Congress have seen such a necessity of an able commander in Canada, as to destine you for that most arduous service .
From Time Magazine Archive
Do Thou ordain for Him, and for them, and for all such as have entered Thy presence in those days all the good Thou didst destine in Thy Book.
From Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by Báb
A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2020
Planes arrive from here and there; holiday makers, the injured and dead, today's interchangeable destines.
From Deadly Pollen by Stephen Oliver
Comical quality in the humorous man whom nature destines for the stage must be personal.
From Shadows of the Stage by William Winter
An ambitious man has a son whom he destines to a learned profession.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Claude is destined to imitate these human traits and mirror the human examples provided to it, including acting like a colleague or friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
And despite the "emotional rollercoaster" of nurturing a child destined to leave sooner rather than later, she would not change a thing.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
It takes a gaggle of great actors to sell a show as objectively ridiculous as “The Gilded Age,” which is entering its fourth season and seems destined to continue forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The trouble isn’t that every digital convenience is destined to malfunction.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
“The Msaidizi answers to who it is destined to answer to, regardless of their intentions,” Uncle Ty says.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
They awoke Henry III's dynastic ambition by promoting the elevation of his brother to be King of the Romans, and destining his younger son Edmund for the crown of Naples and Sicily.
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke
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