Definitions
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- adjective Confined to a
predetermined fate ordestiny ;certain . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
destine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
- adjective (usually followed by `to') governed by fate
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Examples
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The last I heard, the Bureau was calling profilers Criminal Investigative Agents, or CIAs an acronym destined for confusion.
Body of Evidence Patricia Cornwell 1991
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The last I heard, the Bureau was calling profilers Criminal Investigative Agents, or CIAs an acronym destined for confusion.
Body of Evidence Patricia Cornwell 1991
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You even get to take the first few chapters for a test drive absolutely free of charge before deciding if it's a literary great or a title destined for the bargain bin.
Shiny Shiny 2009
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After a few weeks most of the men were crammed into animal carriages on a train destined for Salonika.
Doug Nix 2010
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Analysts will invent a new acronym destined to melt away by 2013.
Tony Greenberg: The 2011 Cynic Measures His Predictions Tony Greenberg 2012
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Do you believe in destined love/love at first sight?
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Don tries to avoid making a phone call destined to bring him earth-shattering bad news by making his protégé, Peggy, stay behind to help him with a troublesome Samsonite ad.
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"We care about the small people," BP Board Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said after meeting President Obama, birthing a phrase destined to be memorialized on T-shirts.
BP chairman says firm cares about 'the small people' [Updated] 2010
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Last month, the Gay Krant, a newspaper for the homosexual community in the Netherlands, accused Tariq Ramadan of making homophobic and mysogenistic statements on tapes in Arabic destined for immigrant communities in Europe.
Is this a whitewash? Tariq Ramadan exonerated of hate speech.... GayandRight 2009
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Let's enjoy the improvement COPS will bring while we have it, but unless the Administration offers a viable long-range plan, we should understand COPS is -- again -- destined to garner a few headlines and then quietly slip away.
Of COPS and sugar bowls Dan 2007
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