fait accompli
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Yet the majority is trying to avoid a fait accompli.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
Before this rebel resurgence, Assad’s survival seemed a fait accompli.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024
Following the sentencing, Mr Webber's mother said the CPS had, in November, presented her family with "a fait accompli that the decision had been made to accept manslaughter charges".
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2024
If we find in coming months or years that any of the 12 dead at the Downs tested hot, then we can mark the FTC's ruling as the moment of fait accompli.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2023
Lawrence responded to the summons by informing Compton, as a fait accompli, that he would be introducing a new participant to the technical roundtable: Robert Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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