preordained
Example Sentences
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Experts say the outcome of the review seems preordained, although the matter is playing out in unexplored legal territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Suryavanshi doesn't just look promising - he looks preordained for India colours.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
A most recent example comes from Ilia Malinin, the American figure skater whose hopes for an individual gold medal in the Olympics, which had been regarded as a preordained inevitability evaporated in a mistake-laden routine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
The decision overall gives a sense that the investigators’ conclusion was preordained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
It was preordained, a bulletproof future they’d tricked themselves into believing was guaranteed to them.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
