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

“To predetermine which way he’s going to vote doesn’t do that board justice in any way,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2021

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

The fallacy of assuming that the fact it is an inheritance, predetermines its future use, is obvious.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey

John’s and Adelaide’s lives follow a predetermined “road from hope to fantasy to disappointment and despair.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Who's going to watch the show if it's already been predetermined who's the winner?"

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

Rather than searching only for predetermined substances, the researchers used a so-called non-targeted approach.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Investor payouts, and the return of principal, ultimately hinges on how the underlying reference asset trades compared with predetermined levels.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

By 1996, in addition to their permit fee, expeditions were required to post a $4,000 bond that would be refunded only if a predetermined amount of trash were carried back to Namche and Kathmandu.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

The 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 ● Feb. 21, 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

“I felt 100 percent, felt like I could do anything I had to do. Honestly, I’m going where the defense tells me to. I’m not predetermining anything.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2014

Mr. Brown even believes that our "insurgent lusts and passions" are predetermining causes of heresy, so that in respect both to faith and to works they achieve our damnation.

From Arrows of Freethought by G. W. (George William) Foote