predetermination
Example Sentences
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As for his Alzheimer’s risk, Hemsworth emphasized that while his DNA gives a “strong indication” of what could happen, it’s not a predetermination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Grahame Wright, the standards committee's independent chairman, said the panel had rejected accusations of "bias and predetermination" in the process.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2021
He decides when to cover his face based on state and local guidelines as well as a predetermination of whether social distancing can or cannot be maintained, according to a White House official.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2020
There is comfort in subsuming your sense of individuality to a larger sentiment of prescription and predetermination.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019
Viewed in its relation to rational creatures, this eternal predetermination is nothing but a temporal premotion of the free will to determine itself.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
