predetermined

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The individual and team sport, also known as cup stacking or speed stacking, involves stacking nine to 12 specially-designed cups in predetermined sequences as quickly as possible.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

The main risk is that by locking your money away in exchange for a monthly income at a predetermined interest rate, you are at the mercy of a massive surge in inflation and interest rates.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

BlackRock and Morgan Stanley both only redeemed the predetermined 5% of their funds when investors asked for more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 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

Or, it occurs to me, one of five predetermined ways.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth