preordain
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Daddis believes that “a twisted relation with faith and fear, if left unbroken, can only preordain the nation to a militarized way of life bounded by the grimness of war.”
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2025
Although the variants increase risk, they do not preordain kidney disease.
From New York Times • May 17, 2022
Not only does Polachek not want to know what other people think she should be doing, she doesn’t want to preordain it herself.
From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2019
But, Blumenthal is careful to add, it doesn't preordain another heart attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
Predes′tinate, to determine beforehand: to preordain by an unchangeable purpose.—adj. fore-ordained: fated.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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