fate
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Instead, the fate of this hard-charging bull market — which will reach its fourth birthday in October — depends entirely on what BofA is calling the ‘AI put.’
From MarketWatch β Sep. 30, 2026
"I call it the fate of the Himalayan people," he told AFP.
From Barron's β Sep. 27, 2026
“Begin Again” the musical is likely to suffer a similar fate.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 22, 2026
More than four months since the Spygate scandal erupted, Southampton manager Tonda Eckert's wait to discover his fate for authorising an espionage campaign is almost over.
From BBC β Sep. 21, 2026
Gingersnipes had been in this very position since she’d arrived in Deadwood: confused and unsure of her own eternal fate.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
I’m taking issue with the widespread belief that the long-term fates of a country’s economy and stock market are closely tied to the size of its population.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 11, 2026
People are commonly greeted by wishing that their names be inscribed in the Book of Life—because on Rosh Hashanah God examines our past deeds and determines our individual fates for the following year.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 10, 2026
Consider the fates of the British Invasion superstars who emerged from England alongside the Stones in the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 10, 2026
That's the no-man's land they're living in now, frantically looking at the respective fates of Senegal and Ecuador, Curacao and Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia and others.
From BBC β Jun. 25, 2026
All they had going for them, from the point of view of Wall Street financial engineers, was that their financial fates could be misconstrued as uncorrelated.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Yet this young Venezuelan seemed somehow uniquely fated to come to L.A.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 12, 2026
In her zeal to convince readers that social and systemic factors shape women’s careers, Ms. O’Connell risks triggering the opposite reaction: Perhaps all women are fated to be victims of the ambition penalty.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 8, 2026
Jack and Sally’s fated romance is the final piece of the puzzle, the pièce de résistance that helps De Palma’s film rise above the other thrillers of its ilk.
From Salon β Jul. 4, 2026
But he was fated to spend more than two-thirds of his career in opposition, and only briefly achieved cabinet rank.
From BBC β Jun. 14, 2026
If other children didn’t move so much, it just went to show that our lives were fated to be different from everyone else’s in the world.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
This was a wolf on the defensive, fating a pack which had turned upon his leadership.
From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck
Now was his hope a great bulk of will fating Its wish to being, now felt he he was blind In some point of his seen wish undefined.
From Antinous: A Poem by Fernando AntΓ³nio Nogueira Pessoa
Vocabulary lists containing fate
The Diary of Anne Frank
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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