foreordain
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How funny it would be if his biggest hit song ever was the one he didn’t foreordain at all?
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2018
But it does not foreordain that they will be incapable of finding common ground, or that the current period of intense partisanship will go on forever.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
To others, it celebrated the ability of Mr. Burden, whose very surname seemed to foreordain a life of professional dolor, to inscribe himself indelibly into his own work, as artists from J.S.
From New York Times ● May 11, 2015
For it cannot with any fairness be assumed that the framers of the Constitution intended to foreordain a perpetual balance of power between the Free and the Slave States.
From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell
As to the word foreordain, I do not recollect that it occurs in our translation.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
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