How to Use predestine in a Sentence
predestine
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At the same time, nothing is predestined.
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Ray Dalio,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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There are nights in football when the outcome seems predestined.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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Ferrari Given his name, Adam Driver was seemingly predestined to play the man behind the world's most prestigious sports car.
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Hannah Kerns,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Science, of course, struggles to prove whether that’s predestined in their genes, though some studies suggest that some tendency toward hoarding—put another way, collecting to excess—is heritable.
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Mark Ellwood,
Robb Report,
31 Mar. 2026
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There’s a generic quality both to singer-songwriter Michaelson’s score (a combination of folk and Broadway pop) and to a romance that seems almost mystically predestined.
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Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Lionel Messi-Lamine Yamal connection For believers in the soccer gods, Lamine Yamal's ascent to the upper echelons of the sport could almost seem predestined with Lamine anointed by a Barça icon — Lionel Messi.
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Nathalie Sommer,
CBS News,
1 Dec. 2025
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