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

But with challenges or recent decisions across multiple circuits, experts say the fight is fated for the Supreme Court.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 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

After Uranus it will plunge on past Neptune, leaving the solar system, becoming an interstellar spacecraft, fated to roam forever the great ocean between the stars.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan