foreordain
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Synonyms
destine, doom, fate, foredoom, ordain, predestine, predetermine, preordain
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The outcome was not foreordained, for either Bork or Mr. Biden. — Alexander Burns, New York Times, "Biden Wants to Work With ‘the Other Side.’ This Supreme Court Battle Explains Why.," 7 Sep. 2019 The 41st president, who couldn’t always get his sentences straight, wasn’t foreordained for history’s hall of fame. — Josef Joffe, WSJ, "George Bush Led the Biggest Diplomatic Triumph Since Jefferson," 3 Dec. 2018 Aster piles on the personal confrontations and emotional breakdowns, but compounds them with unnerving new hauntings, all the way up to an ending that feels foreordained, but still shattering. — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, "Ari Aster’s breakout horror hit Hereditary is pants-wettingly scary," 8 June 2018 This is hardly foreordained, especially if the U.S. reasserts itself on the global stage and rallies like-minded nations against the revisionists. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "The Trump Doctrine, in Theory," 18 Dec. 2017 Egypt’s slide back into authoritarianism wasn’t foreordained. — Joshua Hammer, New York Times, "How Egypt’s Activists Became ‘Generation Jail’," 14 Mar. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'foreordain.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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