predetermine
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Synonyms for predetermine
Synonyms
destine, doom, fate, foredoom, foreordain, ordain, predestine, preordain
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Our lives may be determined, by some combination of genes, environment, and culture, but they are not predetermined. — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, "How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity," 19 Aug. 2019 Why spend money on bribes, books and exams when the future was already predetermined? — New York Times, "The Schoolteacher and the Genocide," 8 Aug. 2019 Piper’s position at the very end of Orange Is the New Black was predetermined. — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, "The Ballad of Taystee Jefferson," 31 July 2019 That fall predetermined his fall from the Chelsea reckoning, forcing the club to bring back players like David Luiz and Andreas Christensen and then buy Antonio Rudiger, in turn forcing Zouma to look to Stoke City and then Everton to attain minutes. — SI.com, "Kurt Zouma: The 'New Marcel Desailly' Deserves a Starting Berth at Chelsea in 2019/20," 24 July 2019 Each stop is predetermined by Samuel L. Jackson and his team. — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, "Everyone assumes Trump will debate in 2020. What makes them so sure?," 20 July 2019 In other words, what seems predetermined now was once novel. — Meara Sharma, Vogue, "Why I Am Taking the Sari Back to the Street," 30 Apr. 2019 However a child uses the box, nothing will be predetermined by some other person. — Lorraine Allen, WSJ, "An Empty Box Is the Perfect Christmas Gift," 19 Dec. 2018 In other words, parents could predetermine the DNA, including physical attributes of their future children. — Fox News, "Democrats eye 'fresh face' for 2020," 19 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'predetermine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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