fated

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Strout seems to be asking similar questions: How much of our existence is fixed or fated?

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

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

Drained by worry, abandoned by St. Christopher, she stopped fighting an eventuality that had never been fated in the first place.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides