fated

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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

We are all fated to die, but for most people Mr. Sasse’s age death is distant, even theoretical.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

But it was fated that Dodd lost the role to Phoebe Dynevor because a few years later Dodd was invited to film a self-tape for a “very secretive” project.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

A person who believed in patterns might be tempted to believe Diego and I were fated to meet.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson