foregone conclusion

Playing football had always been a foregone conclusion, but he’d never really considered playing quarterback.

Without mitigation, she added, major fires will be a foregone conclusion in a place where aggressive suppression has created a large accumulation of fuel and conflagrations that are hotter and more difficult to suppress.

He thought it was a foregone conclusion and he didn't expect that he would have to actually do anything.

“The Bear” may have lost in what is considered to be an upset, but if it weren’t in the running a “Hacks” win would have been a foregone conclusion.

Most US states lean either so strongly Democratic or so strongly Republican that the result is a foregone conclusion.