foreordained

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That reality is going to one-up Griff and Doug’s efforts to make a simple schlock movie seems foreordained, yielding the signature line, “We came here to make ‘Anaconda’ and now we’re in it!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

It has been argued that many paths were possible in the Cambrian, and that the world we ended up with was not foreordained.

From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2023

The VPC space is now light and airy, with beeswax candles, adorable greeting cards, single-origin chocolate bars and the like also on offer; last Friday, Fleet Foxes played in a way that felt foreordained.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

This outcome did not look foreordained when writers such as Andrew Sullivan in the 1990s and, later, Jonathan Rauch laid out the moral case for same-sex marriage.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2022

Whether the cause was the Pilgrim God, Pilgrim guns, or Pilgrim greed, native losses were foreordained; Indians could not have stopped colonization, in this view, and they hardly tried.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann