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US
/ˈfeɪt/
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[ UK /fˈeɪt/ ]
[ UK /fˈeɪt/ ]
NOUN
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the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman)
we are helpless in the face of destiny - an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
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your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
has a happy lot
success that was her portion
deserved a better fate
the luck of the Irish
whatever my fortune may be
a victim of circumstances
VERB
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decree or designate beforehand
She was destined to become a great pianist
How To Use fate In A Sentence
- The theory I do not accept: one simply folds his sails, unships his rudder, and waits the will of Providence, or the arrival of some compelling fate. Saunterings
- Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
- The extracts obtained were prefiltered through glass wool and sodium sulfate anhydride and filtered by column chromatography (clean-up performed using sodium sulfate anhydride and Celite 545).
- Or should I just accept the fact that fate has dealt me a card from the bottom of the deck and move on?
- Before long, fate delivered him to a vernissage where Régine Chassagne was singing.
- ‘Irony’ in its original form is the will of the fates or gods played out through the lives of mortals.
- Whatever the fate of sense-datum theories might be as general theories of exteroception, their appeal as a model for understanding pains and other intransitive bodily sensations is very strong. Pain
- The condemned men were resigned to their fate.
- Not for a minute had she believed fate would be so amenable as to arrange for him to fall madly in love with her. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
- The Little Sparrow," "Je Ne Regrette Rien", the tragic fate of her boxer-lover, do we really need to crank that victrola one more time -- haven't we had enough? Paris Then, Paris Now: James Wolcott