- past participle of predetermine.
- past tense form of predetermine.
predetermined
Example Sentences
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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
Pro wrestling is a realm where a man named John Cena plays a character named John Cena; the match outcomes are predetermined, but the personal stakes are huge.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Rolling a predetermined number on a dice nine times in a row, or guessing a seven-digit number first time, have odds of one in 10 million.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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
