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

“I don’t have a timetable yet. It’s not easy to predetermine a timetable, in the same way that I don’t know how quickly the cases will come down,” Lam told reporters at a daily briefing.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2022

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

George, looking at him with that first swift glance that often predetermines a whole interview, made up his mind that bygones were to be bygones.

From The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Task force leadership, the supposed authors of predetermined outcomes, agreed, and a supervisor told the team it “had done a good job convincing the front office that they should move on from Brown.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Other weeks, a predetermined number of decisions is enough.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

A put option gives the owner the right to sell at a certain price after a predetermined period of time.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

Viewing exhibitions at the Guggenheim is like being conducted through a predetermined stream of consciousness, where everything merges into a total unity.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

The new 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 ● Jan. 9, 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

The main cause of those turnovers, according to Wittman, was predetermining passes without reading the defense.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 18, 2015

Thus, first to New York, and second to Pennsylvania belongs the honor of predetermining the character of local government in the West.

From Government in the United States National, State and Local by James Wilford Garner