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preordain

verb as in appoint

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Ejae, meanwhile, offered an anecdote that suggests “Golden’s” success may have been preordained.

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Daddis believes that “a twisted relation with faith and fear, if left unbroken, can only preordain the nation to a militarized way of life bounded by the grimness of war.”

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That Los Angeles would someday overtake San Francisco in prominence was in some respects preordained.

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Though Cruise loves making movies, he doesn’t enjoy being their preordained salvation.

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But the company’s choice of the dire wolf as its first announced successful “de-extinction” seems almost preordained.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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