predetermine

"There has to be concessions made by all sides. We're not going to predetermine what those are."

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025

They have taken a similar tone in the wake of the indictment, but suggest that their colleagues should not predetermine Bragg’s motives before launching investigations.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023

If hidden variables predetermine the results of the measurements, Alice and Bob can’t win every round.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022

“To predetermine which way he’s going to vote doesn’t do that board justice in any way,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2021

Although current technology allows STSs to predetermine a timeprint, spatial scientists have not yet developed technology to select specific geographic landing destinations outside of the STM coordinates.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

"At the Japan Trench, the geologic layering basically predetermines where the fault will form," said study co-author Patrick Fulton, an associate professor in Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

This system predetermines a player’s compensation based on their draft position.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

It wasn’t a factor for his rookie deal because the collective bargaining agreement predetermines the money in each draft slot.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2022

In its call to suspend time, the music carries the potential to press pause on the punishing velocity that attends disaster, that robs our attention and predetermines a fixed future.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

Always your antagonist predetermines the course of your own movement; and you his.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

“It’s arriving at a situation, not a point” where your savings and investments hit a predetermined target.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

These vehicles are not fully autonomous, but independently follow a predetermined route.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

Pro wrestling is a realm where a man named John Cena plays a character named John Cena; the match outcomes are predetermined, but the personal stakes are huge.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Rolling a predetermined number on a dice nine times in a row, or guessing a seven-digit number first time, have odds of one in 10 million.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

As Zola also sought to demonstrate in Les Rougon-Macquart, the trajectory of our lives is predetermined by our genetic inheritance.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The rule directs employers to consider six criteria for determining whether a worker is an employee or a contractor, without predetermining whether one outweighs the other.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

Hoarding and hiding information relevant to such differences, which amounts to predetermining a verdict of “guilty as charged,” violates basic principles of fair play and gives rise to justified resentment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2018

The Perennial Philosophy with its essential axioms defined by Aldous Huxley: Any event in any part of the universe has as its predetermining conditions all previous events in all parts of the universe.

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2017

“I felt 100 percent, felt like I could do anything I had to do. Honestly, I’m going where the defense tells me to. I’m not predetermining anything.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2014

Coming on guard, he made up his mind to hit him on the fourth disengage, predetermining the four passes that should lead up to it.

From Scaramouche by Sabatini, Rafael