destine
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Since Mussolini was believed to favor the Council, there was a rustle of Fascist surprise last week when he seemed to destine the Assembly to succeed the Chamber of Deputies.
From Time Magazine Archive
A checkup in the womb Is the unborn baby healthy, or does a defect destine it to an early death or a life of debilitating illness?
From Time Magazine Archive
Blake Hamilton and crew have done an outstanding job building and maintaining what is destine become a Lone Star icon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Congress have seen such a necessity of an able commander in Canada, as to destine you for that most arduous service .
From Time Magazine Archive
In every natural scene, if we destine it for any particular purpose, there are defects and redundancies, which art may sometimes, but cannot always correct.
From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by John Ruskin
A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2020
And all the little mighty things that cheer The closing day from quiet year to year, I leave to those whom benignant fate Or merit destines to the wedded state.
From The Little Tea Book by George Washington Hood
It would be in fact but the prelude to that final return to Arabia which Arabian thought, if no other, destines for the Caliphate.
From The Future of Islam by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
Not that he deems himself infallible; too many mistakes in following trails prove the contrary; but he thinks that nature destines such sagacity as she has given him, as she destines it to the 'possum.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
Allow me, then, to call him here so as to restore his confidence; or, better still, come and show me the portion, which your munificence destines for me.
From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid
Even with “Digger,” Cruise’s most ambitious project in years, he confines himself to a loud, obnoxious character destined to be written about as a “big swing.”
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Kpler expects those barrels, most of which are destined for China, to be depleted by early to mid-October at the current pace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The fight arrives later than anybody wanted, with both in the twilight of their careers, but for years British boxing's biggest heavyweight rivalry seemed destined to remain a story of what might have been.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
One population expresses a gene called Otx2 and is destined to form the forebrain and midbrain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Their destined home was on the west coast, somewhat to the north, but they must by no means take the shortest way and go up between Sicily and Italy.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
They awoke Henry III's dynastic ambition by promoting the elevation of his brother to be King of the Romans, and destining his younger son Edmund for the crown of Naples and Sicily.
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke
