a foregone conclusion
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An outcome that everyone already knows will happen.
"Given their dominant season, their championship victory was a foregone conclusion."
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Although their sentence was a foregone conclusion
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it like a foregone conclusion all the more
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exactly a foregone conclusion that the American military
Henry VIII - OverSimplified
OverSimplified · 16:22
and his next divorce trial was a foregone conclusion.
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast #309
Lex Fridman · 99:04
And that was not a foregone conclusion at all.