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fateful

[feyt-fuhl] / ˈfeɪt fəl /




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He is the author of “The Fateful History of Fannie Mae,” published by History Press in 2012, and "Yours Truly," published by Kensington's Citadel Press imprint, a book on how to tell life stories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The law created a new regulatory agency that the mortgage companies helped ensure was “a weakling,” according to Wall Street Journal reporter James R. Hagerty’s 2012 book, “The Fateful History of Fannie Mae.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2020

Arrested Development Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences will be available to stream on Netflix on the Bluths’ favorite holiday, Cinco de Cuatro.

From Slate • May 1, 2018

The tournament, which was to have been the crowning moment for Brazilian soccer, is now remembered only for “The Defeat,” or “The Fateful Final.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2014

Fateful news contained so long in that left ear!

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)




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