destined
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Easy money being the engine of both, they were destined to be together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The second son of Hafez al-Assad, he was not destined to be Syria's ruler until his brother, Basil, died in a car crash in 1994.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
People stop to photograph details destined to disappear in the cremà, when the monuments go up in flame.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Like “Born in the U.S.A.” and “Rockin’ in the Free World,” “Pink Houses” was practically destined to be misinterpreted by elected salesmen peddling easy fantasies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
But by the 1800s, the Mona Lisa was seemingly destined to be just another extraordinary Renaissance painting in a museum of extraordinary Renaissance paintings.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Vocabulary lists containing destined
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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The Tale of Despereaux
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Purple Hibiscus
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