Foreordain or determine beforehand.
1 Let's just say that depending on how you design a study you can practically preordain the outcome.
2 Every step must be preordained and provided for in the mind.
3 The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.
4 The Scot in him preordained that he might be a necessity higher up.
5 Even you have performed the role you were preordained to perform.
6 Mayor,' says I, 'I'm not a regular preordained disciple of S. Q. Lapius.
7 And British rule will all be over, just as it is predestined and preordained .
8 Nevertheless, the morning Brigham rode into Salt Lake City, the capitulation had been preordained .
9 But the fate of His creation is preordained by God.
10 But in life, as in chess, people have choices and behaviour is not preordained .
11 It was one of those things that just felt right, like it had been preordained .
12 There are lots of ways this can end badly, though none of them are preordained .
13 But Chinese "victory" in this projected 2030 conflict is not preordained .
14 He was weighing every nuance and eventuality, and the stars seemed to have preordained Oakland.
15 The latter attempt sets the stage for a prolonged comic sequence where failure is preordained .
16 Their lives were largely conceived to be preordained , since they had little control over them.
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