preordain

Though Cruise loves making movies, he doesn’t enjoy being their preordained salvation.

But the company’s choice of the dire wolf as its first announced successful “de-extinction” seems almost preordained.

Elsewhere in the grand expanse of Lucas’ universe, the right moves are rarely preordained.

But it's easy enough to make these declarations when you've pre-determined your conclusion, and the only work left is to generate some fake statistics to back up that preordained "discovery."

Her stardom, now so apparent, hardly felt preordained.