predetermined

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Instead of simply following predetermined pathways, turbulent energy may be guided and redirected under the right conditions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

And I find with my younger audience, they don't have this predetermined bias for what they're meant to enjoy.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Baker Hughes’s Simonelli made the $33 million sale as part of a predetermined trade that was put into place in November 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The main risk is that by locking your money away in exchange for a monthly income at a predetermined interest rate, you are at the mercy of a massive surge in inflation and interest rates.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 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