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twist of fate

NOUN

reversal of fortune

Synonyms

WEAK

wild card

Example Sentences

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Now, by a twist of fate, former officials are facing trial in the same place.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Opera remains her great love, and it seems a perfect twist of fate that Stasevska was tapped to conduct “Akhnaten.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Dennis is indeed twinless — not by a twist of fate but because he came into this world a singleton and is lying.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

But in a terrible twist of fate, she was instead killed in her home town of Omagh.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

By a great twist of fate, the house belongs to a grocer named Wilmer McLean, who moved to Appomattox Court House to escape the war.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly