predetermining
- present participle of predetermine.
Example Sentences
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The rule directs employers to consider six criteria for determining whether a worker is an employee or a contractor, without predetermining whether one outweighs the other.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Hoarding and hiding information relevant to such differences, which amounts to predetermining a verdict of “guilty as charged,” violates basic principles of fair play and gives rise to justified resentment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2018
The Perennial Philosophy with its essential axioms defined by Aldous Huxley: Any event in any part of the universe has as its predetermining conditions all previous events in all parts of the universe.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2017
The main cause of those turnovers, according to Wittman, was predetermining passes without reading the defense.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 18, 2015
Both ways were—ALIVE, both obedient to impulses over which we had no more control and no more way of predetermining than mice in some complex, man-made trap.
From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham
