How to Use predetermine in a Sentence

predetermine

verb
Definition of predeterminenext
Synonyms for predeterminenext
  • The sex of the child is predetermined when the egg is fertilized.
  • In none of these wars have the tools predetermined the results.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Piper’s position at the very end of Orange Is the New Black was predetermined.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 31 July 2019
  • To a certain extent, a boy's height as an adult is predetermined from birth.
    — Maria Carter, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But her destiny of joining the armed forces was not predetermined.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
  • The terms of Trubisky's contract mostly were predetermined by the NFL's rookie wage scale, which has been in place since 2011.
    — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2017
  • And this lease essentially predetermine the outcome of the bidding process that the city held.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Each stop is predetermined by Samuel L. Jackson and his team.
    — Willie Brown, SFChronicle.com, 20 July 2019
  • That was a battle, by the way, where the result was NOT predetermined by history.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • As such, the outcome of the vote at the special meeting is already predetermined, Zagar said.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Vivek Ramaswamy believes that the outcome of the Super Bowl has been predetermined.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
  • While the odds of a genetic disease are much higher, the outcome is far from predetermined.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The primaries will be ugly, the outcome no longer predetermined.
    — Laura Jedeed, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • All the money raised during the auction goes to the pot and winners of each stage of the tournament receive a certain percentage of the pot that is predetermined.
    — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The number of teams in each division will be predetermined.
    — Staff Report, courant.com, 9 May 2018
  • This amount may or may not be predetermined as set or flexible between new hires.
    — Mark Fadden, star-telegram.com, 23 June 2017
  • Building through the draft is also a way to maximize cap space, too, as salaries for draft picks are predetermined and affordable.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Why spend money on bribes, books and exams when the future was already predetermined?
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • For all of his seeming good-naturedness, Bernard, like the other hosts, is a ticking time bomb, ready to snap at Robert’s predetermined choosing.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Test days have been predetermined by the TEA and will also be unaffected.
    — Jennifer Bolton and Y.c. Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The fates of different places are not predetermined, though—city- or statewide public-health orders matter a lot.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Carlos Alcaraz is so good, so young, and wins so often that his success has seemed predetermined.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 28 May 2023
  • Experts say that Russia is likely to put him on trial behind closed doors and that the outcome is predetermined.
    — Claire Moses, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • This doesn’t seem like something that’s random; it seems predetermined.
    — Bill Gifford, Scientific American, 31 July 2023
  • In other words, what seems predetermined now was once novel.
    — Meara Sharma, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
  • An employer will often predetermine the length of time the assignment will be.
    — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
  • And that ancestral gene isn’t predetermined, since a number of possible versions could have done the trick.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2017
  • McVay insisted the running back rotation plan was predetermined, that the Rams do not have a two-running back system and that Brown got the bulk of red-zone carries due to how the game panned out.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • His whole argument throughout the case is that people’s actions are predetermined by their childhood experiences.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • The West’s twentieth-century economic success was not predetermined.
    — Liaquat Ahamed, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2022

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