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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

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

Blake Hamilton and crew have done an outstanding job building and maintaining what is destine become a Lone Star icon.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

You don't absolutely mean, I presume, to devote them to the painter's eye? or to destine them to the sculptor's chisel?

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

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

Allow me, then, to call him here so as to restore his confidence; or, better still, come and show me the portion, which your munificence destines for me.

From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid

"To begin with, that Monsieur Rupert had come to carry you off from the various noblemen, for one or other of whom his Majesty destines your hand."

From The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Such a girl may a man marry who destines his days to the wild west; but woe unto him!—woe unto him, should he migrate among the more civilized and less charitable coteries of our neighbors!

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

“That Providence destines this country to some great and glorious fate I must believe, while I witness the patriotism that pervades the bosoms of her lowliest citizens,” he said.

From The Spy Condensed for use in schools by J. Fenimore Cooper

Because of this, some goods originating from China and destined for Canada and loaded onto these big vessels have to dock in Los Angeles—and those goods could be subject to U.S. tariffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Many were destined for the large installation McGee’s friends helped to assemble for “Another Round,” his recently opened exhibition, which runs through Jan. 30.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Tanden willingly participates in the roasting, and as a woman of color, she’s destined to be on the brunt end of the internet, but as far as she’s concerned, it’s all been worth it.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Even with “Digger,” Cruise’s most ambitious project in years, he confines himself to a loud, obnoxious character destined to be written about as a “big swing.”

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Then Mini kissed her stiff parents, hugged her immobile brother, and went outside, prepared to face down whatever evil she was destined to defeat.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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