preordain
Example Sentences
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“It will be a struggle over who holds the center of gravity inside the organization, and that result is not preordained.”
From Los Angeles Times
A most recent example comes from Ilia Malinin, the American figure skater whose hopes for an individual gold medal in the Olympics, which had been regarded as a preordained inevitability evaporated in a mistake-laden routine.
From Los Angeles Times
The decision overall gives a sense that the investigators’ conclusion was preordained.
But this weekend defied the notion that only a few schools were preordained to contend.
People come into their careers with a preordained notion of what work they’re going to do.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
