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

Tal Schneider, a political correspondent at the Times of Israel, says it is not a foregone conclusion that a pro-settler US ambassador will result in pro-settler policies in Washington.

And yet, still, President Kamala Harris is far from a foregone conclusion.

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.