Francis Collins

If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.

American Scientist

Robert Kurson

Piracy was risky business, and injuries were commonplace; a single lost limb or gouged-out eye could end a pirate's career. To encourage pirates not to hesitate in battle - and out of a sense of fairness - many pirate crews compensated wounded crewmen in predetermined amounts.

American Author

Nikola Tesla

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Inventor

Jason Bateman

Television is much more of a producer's writer's medium, so a lot of the time, when you're directing a television show, they have a color palette on set or a visual style and dynamic that's already been predetermined, and you just kind of have to follow the rules.

American Actor

Jacinda Ardern

It is a woman's decision about when they choose to have children, and it should not predetermine whether or not they are given a job or have job opportunities.

New Zealander Politician

Joe Manchin

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

American Politician

Paul J. Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

American Businessman

Margaret Weis

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.

American Writer

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

American Poet

Paul Heyman

I don't follow football, because it's predetermined.

American Producer

Predetermine often implies no biased control over an event's outcome.

Impartial Process

'Predetermine' doesn't always suggest unfairness; it can just mean 'planned in advance.'

Not Always Negative

'Predetermine' suggests readiness for future events.

Anticipation

In philosophy, 'predetermine' can start debates about free will versus fate.

Debate Trigger

It's often used to discuss intangible concepts like fate or destiny.

Abstract Concept

In legal contexts, 'predetermine' implies a fixed agreement that is legally binding.

Binding Agreement

Used legally, it suggests no room for later changes or negotiations.

No Flexibility

 These stimuli accomplish many things from serving as an alarm to other ants if one is killed, to signaling when a queen is nearing the end of her reproductive life. But one of the most impressive collective capabilities of an ant colony is to thoroughly and efficiently explore large areas without any predetermined plan.

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 or a fascist regime or a liberal democracy. The trains did not tell you what to do with them. Similarly, now, artificial intelligence and bioengineering and all of that -- they don't predetermine a single outcome. Humanity can rise up to the challenge, and the best example we have

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 that I was old and not fabulous and not perfect or able to fit into the predetermined corporate image in shape. My stomach was proof that I had failed, that it had failed me, that it was broken. My life became about getting rid of it and obsessing about getting rid of it.

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 that was predetermined for them and it happened to be the Rio alga the last remaining unknown tributary to the Amazon the one of the hardest places to get any information on because all the topo maps were littered with these big white blotches said dados insufficient

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 The small farmer in Africa today lives a life without much choice, and therefore without much freedom. His livelihood is predetermined by the conditions of grinding poverty. He comes to the market when prices are lowest,

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 until our government can take over on our own fully. The idea is to raise a transition fund from individual donors, corporations and institutions, but the deal is closed only after predetermined conditions are met

This country isn't just...

 But they don't put much stock in efforts to prolong life in the face of debilitating illness or in old age. It's said in Toraja that everybody has sort of a predetermined amount of life. It's called the sunga'.

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 or spooky action at a distance. He decided that quantum mechanics must be incomplete, a mere approximation of a deeper reality in which both particles have predetermined states that are hidden from us.

Einstein's brilliant...

 As a result, people in many countries, like mine, Russia, look at history as something that was predetermined or determined by the leaders, and common people could not influence it in any way.

What the Russian...

 and some of the obese kids will stay obese throughout life. You could argue that their weight, to some degree, has been predetermined. You could also argue that obesity is a disease.