preordain
Example Sentences
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Suryavanshi doesn't just look promising - he looks preordained for India colours.
From BBC
That uncertainty mirrors the circumstances that once faced Khamenei, whose rise to the top job was hardly preordained.
From Los Angeles Times
“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.
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