foreordain

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How funny it would be if his biggest hit song ever was the one he didn’t foreordain at all?

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2018

But it does not foreordain that they will be incapable of finding common ground, or that the current period of intense partisanship will go on forever.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

To others, it celebrated the ability of Mr. Burden, whose very surname seemed to foreordain a life of professional dolor, to inscribe himself indelibly into his own work, as artists from J.S.

From New York Times • May 11, 2015

Did God foreordain or choose the individuals who would compose the church?

From The Harp of God by Rutherford, J. F. (Joseph Franklin)

For it cannot with any fairness be assumed that the framers of the Constitution intended to foreordain a perpetual balance of power between the Free and the Slave States.

From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by Lowell, James Russell