fateful
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Argentine scientists analysed samples from most of the 33 infected people, which included 11 deaths, during the outbreak in Epuyen, and reconstructed how people crossed paths at that fateful birthday party.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Rocha Moya has denied being at the fateful meeting where Zambada was seized.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
“In Claude Collier,” she rhapsodizes, “I saw my very youth, a fateful green garden, parades on the Avenue, an orchestra on a bandstand, my youth in New Orleans.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
By the time that they met in the Delmonico Hotel on that fateful evening, Dylan exerted a powerful influence upon The Beatles’ songwriterly aesthetic.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
Years later, a record of the fateful voyage was discovered among some artifacts in Arctic Canada.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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