as in doomed
to determine the fate of in advance
my wife and I are such soulmates, I'm convinced that our marriage was preordained
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Recent Examples of preordained
Liam Hess, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2025
Her stardom, now so apparent, hardly felt preordained.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
All of those things have entered the culture and almost feel preordained now.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
The album, Remover explains, flowed out of them in a way that felt almost divinely preordained.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2025
Her stardom, now so apparent, hardly felt preordained.
—Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
All of those things have entered the culture and almost feel preordained now.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preordained
Verb
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The two floors dedicated to offices — including Martin’s personal one — as well as a basement space destined to content production and the brand’s archives are also undergoing the finishing touches.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Detroit’s playoff drought looks destined to go to nine years, the second-longest active drought of any team (Buffalo is the longest at 14), and tied for the fourth-longest drought in NHL history.—
Max Bultman,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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An away victory would have doomed Peru completely but now the race to qualify, for that play-off spot at least, is back on.—
Joseph O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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But without empathy, responsibility, agency, and free will he is doomed to remain a wooden facsimile.—
Ann Kowal Smith,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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What unfolds next is both foreordained and unpredictable: a performance superficially the same as any other rendition of the same score, but also profoundly different — wondrous, perhaps, or merely rote.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
16 Oct. 2024
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The film is a tragedy in which everything comes out right: Coppola builds his protagonist’s absurd overreach into a foreordained happy ending, and the movie itself is a happy outcome from the very start.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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The operator lands their FPV by the side of a track or on a rooftop and waits for possible targets, alerted either by a spotter drone or using the drone’s own camera.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Arkansas State Police will have as many officers on patrol as possible to be visible and monitor for DWI drivers as well as reckless drivers, said Capt. Brad Lann of Arkansas State Police.—
Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Wind gusts of up to 40 mph and pea-sized hail (0.25 inches) are probable.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
30 June 2025
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Prices have since backed down as analysts predicted closing the Strait of Hormuz, while possible, is not probable.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
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“Preordained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preordained. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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