Example Sentences

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"Shape predetermines how a particle is going to move," McGovern said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 12, 2023

It wasn’t a factor for his rookie deal because the collective bargaining agreement predetermines the money in each draft slot.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2022

In its call to suspend time, the music carries the potential to press pause on the punishing velocity that attends disaster, that robs our attention and predetermines a fixed future.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

That meant, as any anthropologist might have put it, that technology predetermines social structure; hence, tools prefigure the psychology of their users.

From Time Magazine Archive

A second form of experience that is capitalized and so predetermines a man's capacity to act and to think is the formation of what is known as practical judgments.

From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Scott, Walter Dill