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- adjective Certain to
suffer death ,failure , or a similarlynegative outcome . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
doom .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell
- adjective marked for certain death
- adjective (usually followed by `to') determined by tragic fate
- noun people who are destined to die soon
- adjective marked by or promising bad fortune
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Examples
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Pushing Daisies was a really excellent and creative show - which pretty much meant it was doomed from the get go.
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Plus, the cool captain dude, not being a white guy, was clearly doomed from the start to an early death (he is the same actor who played the lead in the seriously excellent film Twilight Samurai, which I highly recommend).
2008 Film Reviews: Not Such a Good Week, That Was kateelliott 2009
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Stories of people entering marriages they felt were doomed from the start intrigued Carl Weisman of Torrance, Calif., whose book, So Why Have You Never Been Married?
'With this doubt, I thee wed': Some know marriage will fail 2009
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If this gaggle is key to anything, it's doomed from the start!
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Government run daycare centers were doomed from the start to fall to the lowest common denominator.
High school dropout rate takes a leap (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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This was doomed from the beginning, rev share on ads during authentication? to support a team of 40 people?
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But he was right the Republicans were doomed from the start when they said NO and the conservatives followed suit because of people like Becky and flush and got all frenzied up.
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Plus, the cool captain dude, not being a white guy, was clearly doomed from the start to an early death (he is the same actor who played the lead in the seriously excellent film Twilight Samurai, which I highly recommend).
kateelliott: 2008 Film Reviews: Not Such a Good Week, That Was kateelliott 2009
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This time, the Kings led 2-1 going into the third period, behind goals from Alexander Frolov and Drew Doughty, but 5-on-5 breakdowns once again doomed the Kings as the Canucks scored three third-period goals to win the game and the series.
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But you know, I was doomed from the moment I decided that I could try to do a little very basic education aimed at people who have never tried to write somebody not exactly like them, and maybe help writers avoid writing a few POC characters who were basically middle class white people with a coat of well-meaning shellac.
Cease fire. coffeeandink 2009
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