foreordained

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That reality is going to one-up Griff and Doug’s efforts to make a simple schlock movie seems foreordained, yielding the signature line, “We came here to make ‘Anaconda’ and now we’re in it!”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

It has been argued that many paths were possible in the Cambrian, and that the world we ended up with was not foreordained.

From Scientific American • Nov. 7, 2023

The VPC space is now light and airy, with beeswax candles, adorable greeting cards, single-origin chocolate bars and the like also on offer; last Friday, Fleet Foxes played in a way that felt foreordained.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

But I actually found more rooting interest in her teammates, because their triumphs didn’t feel quite so foreordained.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2022

Dad held my hands in his mangled fingers and told me that his disfiguration had been foreordained.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover