twist of fate

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In a twist of fate his grandson Lembit would become more famous than him, being a Liberal Democrat MP through the early 2000s and later going on I'm a Celebrity...

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

Opera remains her great love, and it seems a perfect twist of fate that Stasevska was tapped to conduct “Akhnaten.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 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

That was certainly the case at Monza, as they interfered after the sort of twist of fate that often turns driver's races.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2025

By a great twist of fate, the house belongs to a grocer named Wilmer McLean, who moved to Appomattox Court House to escape the war.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly