destine
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Blake Hamilton and crew have done an outstanding job building and maintaining what is destine become a Lone Star icon.
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
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
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
Let me not be compelled to expiate it so terribly, because I willfully cherished an affection for a man whom thou didst not destine for me.
From A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern
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 lowliest citizens,” he said.
From The Spy Condensed for use in schools by J. Fenimore Cooper
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 Wilfred Scawen Blunt
The same conduct God in his tender mercy holds with regard to those chosen souls which he destines to raise, by special graces, highest in his favor.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
The crown to which fate destines thee, and which preternatural agents endeavour to bestow upon thee.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
That sent long-term rates plunging but they rebounded on Thursday, with Mark Malek, of Muriel Siebert & Co, calling it "a housekeeping move destined to be short-term, at best".
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Easy money being the engine of both, they were destined to be together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The second son of Hafez al-Assad, he was not destined to be Syria's ruler until his brother, Basil, died in a car crash in 1994.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
People stop to photograph details destined to disappear in the cremà, when the monuments go up in flame.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Our town is destined for greatness, and the real estate in it is destined for greatness too.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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 Leopold von Ranke
