predetermination

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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

The Thomists as a general rule follow their master, and do not admit that the soul makes its resolve without the existence of some predetermination which contributes thereto.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.