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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a destined" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in contexts where "destined" is an adjective, but it requires a noun to follow it, such as "a destined outcome" or "a destined path."
Example: "She felt that she was on a destined path to success."
Alternatives: "a fated" or "a predetermined".
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'Every man has a destined path,' he says in the film.
A prequel, though, seems designed to turn McClane into a chosen one, looking forward to a destined heroic specialness.
Or is it a destined to become a trendy, diverse uptown community that was once mostly black?
Yet for all his aptitude he was hardly a natural academic, and debilitating headaches enforced the habits of a destined, if unwilling, recluse.
In the tales of Lewis or Rowling or Pullman the children find themselves part of a grand quest, a huge cosmic battle in which they will play a destined role.
She is watching the same TV show that he is (whiskey half drained on his coffee table, Chinese takeout in his lap), and although this fact assures us of a destined romance, it is not so useful for the people on the screen.
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Back when she was large (and naked!) with a child destined for a nutty celebrity-spawn name, it made sense.
Now there were two Turkish diplomats on a train destined for a death camp.
A crane-operated grappler lifted steel into a truck destined for Claymont Steel, a Russian-owned mill in Delaware.
The label from a parcel destined for an officer on the Titanic has been put up for auction.
It was a laughable moment, a play destined for the blooper reels, but Parker stayed composed.
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