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Which composer's Fifth Symphony has an opening famously described as "fate knocking at the door"?

fate

[fayt] / feΙͺt /


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The American pioneer vanished while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, spawning decades of speculation about her fate.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Hernández pronounced the state of his team as “still good,” even as Snell and Glasnow can determine the fate of the season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The fate of these women and their children has proven a sticking point for the Western countries from where some originated, with many trapped or stripped of their citizenship by their former homelands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

"Cell fate wasn't locked in all at once. Different cell types settled into their identity on their own separate schedules, some early and some late."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The fate of the school hung in the balance.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The author’s careful research destroys many Victorian myths about the lives and fates of these women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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 ● Sep. 11, 2026

The remarkable finds have sparked hope that some families could finally discover the fates of their ancestors, more than 80 years on from the war.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Consider the fates of the British Invasion superstars who emerged from England alongside the Stones in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

I even explained the origins of the term “geek,” how so many of them, once destined to be marginalized outcasts, were using technology to alter their fates, change their destinies, build a new culture.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Not everyone is fated to save the world with their prophecy-fulfilling twin.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

For in this moving elegy to innocence, the wayward boy was always fated to become a tragic hero.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

But he was fated to spend more than two-thirds of his career in opposition, and only briefly achieved cabinet rank.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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

Then the Witch wheeled the horse round so that she fated the crowd and its hind-legs were on the footpath.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

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


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