preordain

Example Sentences

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Daddis believes that “a twisted relation with faith and fear, if left unbroken, can only preordain the nation to a militarized way of life bounded by the grimness of war.”

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2025

Although the variants increase risk, they do not preordain kidney disease.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

Not only does Polachek not want to know what other people think she should be doing, she doesn’t want to preordain it herself.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2019

But, Blumenthal is careful to add, it doesn't preordain another heart attack.

From Time Magazine Archive

V. impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on, approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom, have in store for.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark