as in destines
to determine the fate of in advance
my wife and I are such soulmates, I'm convinced that our marriage was preordained
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The message here is not that childhood trauma dooms someone to cancer, says Fuller-Thompson.—
Rob Williams,
EverydayHealth.com,
22 Apr. 2026 -
Legacy homer dooms Lake Ridge Shayla Gonzalez broke open a 1-1 tie with a 3-run home run in the top of the seventh inning and Mansfield Legacy hung on to beat Mansfield Lake Ridge 4-3 in a District 3-6A showdown on Tuesday night.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Apr. 2026
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And one of the tenets of that faith is that God ordains everything.—
Scott Pelley,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Preordains.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preordains. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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