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foregone conclusion

定局,定论,必然的结论,成定局

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an inevitable conclusion or result.
    • : a conclusion, opinion, or decision formed in advance of proper consideration of evidence, arguments, etc.

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Examples

  • Dean considers Michigan as a warning to other states of how quickly new outbreaks may pick up, but she says it’s not a foregone conclusion.

  • She said we keep talking about it like it is a foregone conclusion that courts will agree that Measure C, like these others, passed with 65 percent of the vote instead of two-thirds.

  • Even a virus capable of causing a pandemic that brings the world to its knees wasn’t necessarily a foregone conclusion.

  • Despite support among key City Council members, the changes are not a foregone conclusion.

  • So even though the result of the certification was supposed to be a foregone conclusion, some wondered whether Nixon would really go through with it.

  • Was there an investigation of people at DOJ before they arrived at that conclusion?

  • Editorial and political cartoon pages from throughout the world almost unanimously came to the same conclusion.

  • Following this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, the way to achieve world peace is to give everyone atomic bombs.

  • In that sense, the last Report was mildly unsatisfying as a conclusion, in that it left so much unresolved.

  • Magnum came into being as a cooperative only two years after the conclusion of World War II.

  • And the others, not knowing that he had that day repented, sat at their distance and tried to form no conclusion.

  • The conclusion is reached that, despite these drawbacks, the Jesuit mission in Canada has made a hopeful beginning.

  • The interest of the story is now at an end; but much yet remains before the conclusion.

  • How would the involuntary accusation have been embittered, had he known that the Empress drew the same conclusion!

  • I made the experiment two years ago, and all my experience since has corroborated the conclusion then arrived at.