fateful
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Now they must launch their adult lives in its shadow, cognizant, in many cases, that they carry the fateful mutation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Their fateful interactions are told through crisp flashes of memory, skillfully rendered with spare elegance by the translator Hillel Halkin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
As the protests fall silent for now, the country waits for the president to make a series of possibly fateful decisions.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Might the Iran deal, different in so many ways, nevertheless come to be seen as similarly fateful?
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
In that fateful moment, as the terrifying shape seemed to fly through the air toward him, all Julius’s determination to die without resisting was overwhelmed by his instinct to save himself.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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