preordain

That Los Angeles would someday overtake San Francisco in prominence was in some respects preordained.

Though Cruise loves making movies, he doesn’t enjoy being their preordained salvation.

But the company’s choice of the dire wolf as its first announced successful “de-extinction” seems almost preordained.

Elsewhere in the grand expanse of Lucas’ universe, the right moves are rarely preordained.

But it's easy enough to make these declarations when you've pre-determined your conclusion, and the only work left is to generate some fake statistics to back up that preordained "discovery."