destine
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The Congress have seen such a necessity of an able commander in Canada, as to destine you for that most arduous service .
From Time Magazine Archive
Since Mussolini was believed to favor the Council, there was a rustle of Fascist surprise last week when he seemed to destine the Assembly to succeed the Chamber of Deputies.
From Time Magazine Archive
A checkup in the womb Is the unborn baby healthy, or does a defect destine it to an early death or a life of debilitating illness?
From Time Magazine Archive
Blake Hamilton and crew have done an outstanding job building and maintaining what is destine become a Lone Star icon.
From Time Magazine Archive
For to destine, is to direct or send.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2020
"That Providence destines this country to some great and glorious fate I must believe, while I witness the patriotism that pervades the bosoms of her lowest citizens," he said.
From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore
It would be in fact but the prelude to that final return to Arabia which Arabian thought, if no other, destines for the Caliphate.
From The Future of Islam by Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
Indeed, evolution shows us that, the more souls grow, the nearer they approach that perfection to which progress destines them, and happiness exists only in perfection.
From Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution by Rothwell, Fred
I indeed recognise my enemy," said she to the woodcutter; "beware of him, and believe that it is with no good intention he destines your daughter for the bride of a king.
From The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
The abrasive texture of shark skin repels barnacles and has inspired antimicrobial surface coatings for hospitals; the seeds of a flowering plant offer clues to the designers of probes destined for other worlds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
It’s equally fair to call it an art video destined to be projected on the backdrop of a dance floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
He said he was seeking $87bn in congressional funding for his department, with $67bn of that destined for operations in the Middle East.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Microsoft’s stock is destined to break out, according to Bernstein analyst Mark Moerdler.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
This idea eventually came to be called Manifest Destiny—the belief that English-speaking Americans were destined to spread their presence and their ideals across the entire continent.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
They awoke Henry III's dynastic ambition by promoting the elevation of his brother to be King of the Romans, and destining his younger son Edmund for the crown of Naples and Sicily.
From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von
