fateful
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Not for long — Harry soon receives the fateful letter inviting him to attend Hogwarts.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
But they couldn’t stand for what was happening at Quirky Books, which had changed dramatically since those fateful days in 2020.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
When players refused to sing the national anthem at a game in Australia, they set in motion a fateful series of events.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
It was a fateful decision, setting in motion a series of events that left them confronting the hardest decision of their lives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Smiling expansively and nodding to the crowd, the archduke was riding in an open car through the streets of Sarajevo on the fateful Sunday morning of June 28, 1914.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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