- past tense form of predetermine.
- past participle of predetermine.
predetermined
Example Sentences
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Using predetermined waypoints, photographs and video can be taken from the same positions month after month and year after year, allowing conservationists to build up a picture of how the landscape changes.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Who's going to watch the show if it's already been predetermined who's the winner?"
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Rather than searching only for predetermined substances, the researchers used a so-called non-targeted approach.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Investor payouts, and the return of principal, ultimately hinges on how the underlying reference asset trades compared with predetermined levels.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
We may be like the genetically different lines of mice, or like Hayflick’s different tissue-culture lines, programmed to die after a predetermined number of days, clocked by their genomes.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
