preordain
Example Sentences
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“It is a kangaroo tribunal, presided over by an unelected government, whose purpose is to deliver a preordained guilty verdict and to discredit a political opponent,” she said.
People come into their careers with a preordained notion of what work they’re going to do.
Ejae, meanwhile, offered an anecdote that suggests “Golden’s” success may have been preordained.
From Los Angeles Times
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
That Los Angeles would someday overtake San Francisco in prominence was in some respects preordained.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
