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

Consequently every physical predetermination, in so far as it is a determinatio ad unum, must necessarily be destructive of free-will.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur