destine
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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?
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Blake Hamilton and crew have done an outstanding job building and maintaining what is destine become a Lone Star icon.
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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.
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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 .
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For to destine, is to direct or send.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
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
Thou knowest well that thy divine father destines thee to wed the Prince of Kush whom but now thou didst smite so fiercely.'
From The World's Desire by Henry Rider Haggard
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
In it the mutual love of Partenio and Amaranta is thwarted by the girl's mother Celia, who destines her for a goatherd.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
An ambitious man has a son whom he destines to a learned profession.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
Of course, it was destined for the jokes about the new wordmark to happen.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
Jobs, however, wasn’t destined to play a role for very long in that new era; he had his eye on something beyond the Pentagon and CIA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Austin is one of those rare teenagers who looks and acts like someone destined to reach the highest level possible because of his physical gifts and mental outlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
I thought I was destined for short men.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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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