fated

Example Sentences

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What we know and they don’t quite realize yet is that these young’uns are themselves fated to love each other.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 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

It’s not that NewsNation was fated to go this way.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026

There is a healthy amount of respect between the Rams and Seahawks, and — at least from the Rams in the locker room Sunday night — a feeling that this matchup was fated.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

It turned from poik-yos into faigjaz in Germanic, and faege in Old English, meaning fated to die, leading to “fey.”

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas