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