destine
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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.
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
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
Blake Hamilton and crew have done an outstanding job building and maintaining what is destine become a Lone Star icon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many planters are opposed to giving their sons, whom they destine to succeed them as farmers, a classical education.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
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
Nevertheless, If English war-fleets be abreast Boulogne, As these deserters tell, and ripe to land there, It destines Bonaparte to pack him back Across the Rhine again.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
He has resolved to dry the different plants which appear to him most proper for the use to which he destines them, and to submit them afterwards to a trial by fire.
From The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe by Joseph Xavier Saintine
"To begin with, that Monsieur Rupert had come to carry you off from the various noblemen, for one or other of whom his Majesty destines your hand."
From The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The King destines your hand for another, and has already announced that such is the case.
From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Then there is Pella’s vicarious bond with Irma Friske, a brilliant—and younger—scholarship student destined for academic glory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves are leading the revamped Lakers roster, but the team is still destined to endure a familiar early postseason exit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The trouble isn’t that every digital convenience is destined to malfunction.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
They were destined for private buyers in Germany.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Another whose tears could heal any hurt—a beautiful gift, but he was destined to spend his whole life crying.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
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