predetermined

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Baker Hughes’s Simonelli made the $33 million sale as part of a predetermined trade that was put into place in November 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

However, the predetermined statistical criterion was not met in the primary endpoint.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

A put option is a contract that gives its owner the right to sell an asset at a future date at a predetermined price.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

“It’s all pretext and obfuscation when the real agenda is rejecting conventional science and serving a predetermined anti-vaccine agenda,” Richard Hughes IV, a law professor at George Washington University, told The Guardian.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

We may be like the genetically different lines of mice, or like Hayflick’s different tissue-culture lines, programmed to die after a predetermined number of days, clocked by their genomes.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas