dooms
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of dooms
Example Sentences
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This balancing sometimes dooms legislative changes, even when they have large budgetary effects.
From Slate • May 29, 2025
"If you’re stuck in the past, that usually dooms a partnership."
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025
This dooms the great love of her life, with Pedro, who marries Tita’s sister just to be near her.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023
Dustin May did everything right in his first start of 2023, but a lack of timely hitting dooms the Dodgers in a 2-1 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2023
Lack of any single required characteristic dooms efforts at domestication, just as it dooms efforts at building a happy marriage.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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