destine
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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
Blake Hamilton and crew have done an outstanding job building and maintaining what is destine become a Lone Star icon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Let me not be compelled to expiate it so terribly, because I willfully cherished an affection for a man whom thou didst not destine for me.
From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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
Thou knowest well that thy divine father destines thee to wed the Prince of Kush whom but now thou didst smite so fiercely.'
From The World's Desire by Henry Rider Haggard
The holy act is however interrupted by the Emperor's niece, Princess Eudora, who comes to purchase a golden chain, which once belonged to the Emperor Constantin, and which she destines for her bride-groom, Prince Leopold.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley
It would be in fact but the prelude to that final return to Arabia which Arabian thought, if no other, destines for the Caliphate.
From The Future of Islam by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
He shows not His purposes, but it would seem he destines Feodor, his young son, to be our tsar.
From Boris Godunov: a drama in verse by Alfred Hayes
Bursting clear of his rivals like they were a technical area, Arteta shrugged off questions over his team's sometimes robust style as well as those who suggested the Gunners were destined to always be runners-up.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Of course, it was destined for the jokes about the new wordmark to happen.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
That sent long-term rates plunging but they rebounded on Thursday, with Mark Malek, of Muriel Siebert & Co, calling it "a housekeeping move destined to be short-term, at best".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
His name is destined to become a rude punchline or be completely forgotten.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
I wanted to seem like someone destined to perform as the Peacock in The Nutcracker.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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
