foregone
定局,定局的,定例,定居的
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Definitions
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- : that has gone before; previous; past.
- : determined in advance; inevitable.
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Examples
In style and rhetoric, McAuliffe sought to convey to voters the impression that his nomination is a foregone conclusion — even down to a stately office backdrop on screen that was centered by a large sectional couch.
Neither peace nor co-existence ever stood a chance, with the Palestinian uprising of 2000-2005 in one form or another as foregone a conclusion as its various predecessors.
To be sure, Republican rule of the Senate is not a foregone conclusion.
Indeed, to members of the Yes campaign in the final days, victory was a foregone conclusion.
As Egyptians go to the polls, the election of a new strongman is a foregone conclusion.
In his home state, Brian Sandoval is a foregone lock to be reelected governor.
Usually the Best Picture winner is a foregone conclusion by this point—did anyone really think The Artist or Argo would lose?
He must have seen, long before November 1292, that an adverse decision was a foregone conclusion.
It seems to be a foregone conclusion that I shall never hear a good performance of one of my operas.
Finally, a foregone conclusion against her had stolen into Theodore's mind, and this she could not conquer.
General opinion in financial circles leans to idea that new policy is foregone failure.