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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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His younger brother Princewill Umanmielen currently leads college football in sacks at LSU, with eight and seems destined to join Princely in the NFL one day.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026
Some survive because treatment works, not because the cancer was detected earlier; others survive because they were overdiagnosed (diagnosed with a cancer not destined to cause symptoms or death).

— H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026

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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
The Episcopal Church has allowed women to be in ministry since 1974, and Ashby was ordained by Lamb.

— Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 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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In some cases, House Democrats are campaigning on the bill that’s doomed in its current form, presenting a further contrast to the vast majority of Senate Democrats who want nothing to do with it.

— Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
On the other hand, don’t assume that everyone currently at HBO Max is safe and everyone at Paramount is doomed.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 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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