dooming

verb

present participle of doom
1
as in destining
to determine the fate of in advance the actor felt that he was doomed to be forever remembered for that one terrible performance

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2
as in sentencing
to impose a judicial punishment on doomed the murderer to life in prison without the possibility of parole

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Recent Examples of dooming The lemmings Trump has placed in positions of power would join in the ridicule, dooming such a candidate’s chances at the GOP nomination. — Colleen Kujawa, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026 The implicit villain in that critique was Senator Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who refused to go along with changing the Senate rules, dooming many of Biden’s legislative ambitions. — Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026 The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory has been called off, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year. — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026 The mission to save NASA's sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year. — CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026 Nuñez gave up a home run to Mike Yastrzemski in the seventh, and Austin Riley followed with one of his own, ultimately dooming the Mets. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 She’s lost Luke to Kronos, dooming them to fight on opposing sides of a war dividing the demigods. — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 Is the party genuinely rebuilding itself or are progressives dooming the Dems for what could have been a midterm rout? — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 14 July 2026 This evidence is considered among the most important to both sides, potentially either dooming OpenAI as an infringer or exonerating its chatbot technology as a transformative fair use of news sites’ content. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026
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  1. ordaining
  2. sentencing
  3. condemning
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  • Bishop Felix Davidek responded by secretly ordaining married men and some women, including Ludmila Javorová.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The church began ordaining women as priests in the 1980s, beginning with Lucia Okuthe of the diocese of Maseno South in 1983.
    — Stephanie TriplettAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of ordaining
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  • Cipparone also noted that the federal judge seemed to take Smith's apology as sincere, sentencing him to less time than what prosecutors recommended.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Such a motion can allow prosecutors to request a sentence reduction after sentencing based on a defendant’s assistance to investigators.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of sentencing
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  • The brazen, unmasked calls to erase Israel triggered fierce bipartisan backlash from lawmakers condemning the rising wave of open extremism.
    — Staff, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Reddit users have been posting about the problem, and condemning Sega and the game’s developer, Creative Assembly.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of condemning

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“Dooming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dooming. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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