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predestinated

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Awaiting in a World Cup semifinal is France, a team that has looked almost predestined to raise another World Cup trophy.

— Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 11 July 2026
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.

— Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026

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But this time, his concert is destined to draw an even larger crowd.

— Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2026
The exec also served as a conduit between Sony and Netflix on a pay one output deal involving the streaming giant’s commitment to buy films that had been developed at Sony but that weren’t destined for theaters.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

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He was ordained in 2018 after studies at the University of Dallas and Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
It will also be broadcast by Catholic media giant EWTN and livestreamed on the YouTube channel of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, the diocese where Sheen was ordained.

— Aleja Hertzler-McCain, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026

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In The Radiance, the movements toward generosity can read as preordained.

— Zain Khalid, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026
This mythologizing of a masculine, European (though crucially not British) version of Columbus supported burgeoning American ideals of Manifest Destiny (the idea that the United States was preordained to expand to the Pacific Ocean and beyond).

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026

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Some economists argued that government attempts to intervene in the economy were doomed to fail.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
Efforts to institute regulations at an international level are often doomed to fail, typically because of geopolitical and economic competition.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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Conditions outside of the wind are expected to be sunny, and the day’s high is predicted to reach 68 before dropping to around 48 Monday night.

— The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 18 Oct. 2026
This year, those existing factors coincide with what is predicted to become the strongest El Niño event in recorded history.

— Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026

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City leaders never expected Sunrise Mall was fated for a sports complex, but that ethos — of being flexible and pitching the city to fill gaps in the market — will help bring in new businesses, Middleton said.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 1 Oct. 2026
His path toward becoming a designer was weird, but probably fated if what happened next was any indication.

— Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

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