fate
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But the online attention had yet to alter Walters’ fate.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Oracle is tightly linked to OpenAI’s fate, having taken on debt to help fund a massive expansion in cloud capacity that’s meant support the ChatGPT creator’s growth ambitions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Judge Alex Lee said on Friday the fate of the statue would be decided after a decision was made on its ownership.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Sanchez planned to report to work Thursday evening, but was sure she’d suffer the same fate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Perhaps,” she said, for she knew how sharply fate can swerve between one day and the next.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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I’m taking issue with the widespread belief that the long-term fates of a country’s economy and stock market are closely tied to the size of its population.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
The remarkable finds have sparked hope that some families could finally discover the fates of their ancestors, more than 80 years on from the war.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
By reminding Americans they controlled their political fates, democracy also encouraged economic self-betterment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
While there’s nothing particularly novel about that plot, it pulls you along, and the series as a whole is orchestrated to make one care about the characters and worry over their fates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
I moved away from the critic and found myself sitting beside a clairvoyant who loudly predicted the fates of the various characters seen moving their lips up on the screen.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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The prophecy also claims that the fated twins have the power to command daemons, supernatural beings with unearthly abilities.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
For in this moving elegy to innocence, the wayward boy was always fated to become a tragic hero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
But he was fated to spend more than two-thirds of his career in opposition, and only briefly achieved cabinet rank.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
If you lack investment discipline and don’t have a plan to handle your winners and losers, you are likely fated to lose more than you should—and to earn less than you could.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
He shrugged and said, “You might not believe it, but I was fated to be a priest. In the City of York. That’s far to the north.”
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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Now was his hope a great bulk of will fating Its wish to being, now felt he he was blind In some point of his seen wish undefined.
From Antinous: A Poem by Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa
This was a wolf on the defensive, fating a pack which had turned upon his leadership.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
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