preordain

But success, at least on this level, was not preordained.

No worries or problems present themselves because everything is preordained.

The outcome of that game, she knew, had been preordained.

They had accepted his leadership as if it was preordained.

That her mother would be the one to finally do so seemed, in retrospect, preordained.

The three of them approached the body on the beach as if their meeting had been preordained.

He added, "It's just preordained for us to meet each year."

Their lives were largely conceived to be preordained, since they had little control over them.

In this case faith depends on a value system that is preordained.

It will be long and muggy, that much is preordained.

They spoke daily; she told him he was "preordained" for this project.

"The result is preordained: we stick the riders with the bill down the line."

And in this case the answer, Torr knew, was preordained.

His chase is preordained to end in tragedy, and he knows it.

It wasn't, he thought, as if things had been preordained.

She did not have to be lost, it was not preordained.

But if the general outcome is already preordained, the form and conditions of unification are not.

That much had come to him in prophecy, and he believed it to be preordained.

It's almost as if the grand smashup is preordained, he thought.

I honestly felt it was in some way preordained.

It was as if the script had been preordained.

Had it been preordained, a fixture in his future timeline?

What was extraordinary in 1989 seems almost preordained in 1997.

The sense that the response was preordained is probably what turns off many potential viewers and listeners.