twist of fate
Example Sentences
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That twist of fate came after last year’s unprecedented mid-decade rejiggering of California’s congressional districts.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
"It was quite a mad twist of fate or luck that I had seen this advert and ended up in bobsleigh, so I don't know if bobsleigh found me or I found bobsleigh," she laughed.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
By a bizarre twist of fate, it ended up in the filmmakers’ possession through eBay, after a man named Juju kept the animatronic in his living room in Florida.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
But in a terrible twist of fate, she was instead killed in her home town of Omagh.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025
Before hanging up, she told me that in a cruel twist of fate her mother had fallen gravely ill as well.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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