How to Use preordain in a Sentence

preordain

verb
  • Their cash for the next four years is preordained—thanks in large part of Russell’s failures.
    — The Si Staff, SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • But bears cautioned that the rebound was preordained and may not stick.
    — Jeremy Herron, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Indeed, some of the great foods and beverages of all time were not planned or preordained at all.
    — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 31 July 2019
  • Memes may not be preordained, but this one is more predictable than most.
    — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2020
  • The question becomes whether that means his fate is preordained by virtue of his blood, his faith, or his skin color.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017
  • Last, each would be eaten in a bun with the judge’s preordained condiments — the same for each dog, to keep the flavor profile consistent.
    — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 27 June 2017
  • When Macy and Jillian would take the court in their backyard, the outcome was pretty much preordained and Macy rarely came out on top.
    — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Her future, and those of her siblings, almost seemed preordained.
    — USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • For Risso, the curious twists of the mind are our bulwark against anything proscribed or preordained; our brains and our passions will, in his view, set us free.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2019
  • This was an expansion that was not preordained by doctrine.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 30 June 2018
  • Why waste time on speeches and testimony when the outcome is preordained?
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The Wonder Years Looking back, Sepinwall’s life as a scholar, teacher and activist seems preordained.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Impeachment is now essentially preordained, but there is still a process to observe, and Democrats swiftly marched through it this week.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
  • So here comes Clemson, the Tide’s desired opponent on the sport’s biggest stage — a matchup seemingly preordained the moment the clocks hit zero nearly a year ago.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Hillary Clinton’s narrow win in the primary was the last gasp of a dying neoliberal order, the overthrow of which is now preordained.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Sep. 2017
  • This was the tournament that reminded us that champions should not be preordained, and that epitaphs should not be prewritten.
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The greatest Artists of all time seem to have emerged fully formed from the ether of musical legend as if their success had been simply undeniable and preordained.
    — Ted Brown, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The answers that the commission may propose appear preordained by its makeup.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 July 2019
  • His parents owned a diner complete with a jukebox, so the whole production seems preordained by the ghost of Perry Como or some other 1950s vocal icon.
    — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 18 May 2017
  • In the past, though, the ubiquity of fossil fuels preordained that consumption (and prices) would eventually rise and tempt investors back.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • But watching Oladipo soar with the Pacers only reaffirms her belief that his current success was preordained.
    — Clifton Brown, Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The board votes were all but preordained after the board’s executive committee took similar votes on Monday.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • His essay makes clear that social progress isn’t guaranteed or preordained, and certainly not linear.
    — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
  • That Taguba, one of seven children, ended up becoming a soldier was not preordained.
    — Chris Fuchs /, NBC News, 25 May 2018
  • Now, with less than two weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, several of the race’s protagonists were being called back to the capital to participate in a process whose outcome is all but preordained.
    — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Julia considers their friendship preordained, if only because both have pale blue eyes.
    — Laura Lippman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Progressives have long complained that the national Democratic Party has sought to preordain the outcome of primary races.
    — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The entire thesis is founded on the simple fact of a hotel booking; in the conspiracy mind-set, even the most mundane logistical details reveal a deeper, preordained plot.
    — Colin Dickey, New Republic, 8 June 2017
  • In a sense, the surprising deal is preordained by his mission to construct the everything store: A company that delivers everything to everyone, at the best possible price and within the shortest amount of time.
    — Brad Stone, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2017
  • Having preordained the guardrails of democracy to give way to the new Hitler, and having consigned liberalism to the dustbin of history, its critics on the left proceed to boil the political question down to a simple binary.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Sep. 2017

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