as in fate
a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand
I just knew that it wasn't my destiny to end up in a dead-end job
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Recent Examples of destiny
Meanwhile, Mirren wants to store her fest statue, which keeps mysteriously appearing next to an Oscar statuette, in its box in a different take on Karlovy Vary winners’ and trophies’ destinies.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2026
Drawn into a love story with a familiar collaborator as her path intersects with women of different ages and cultural backgrounds, all fighting to take control of their own destinies, Maxine finds herself on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront the choices shaping her life.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
26 June 2026
The fates of their World Cup destiny remained in limbo with the score tied, 1-1, in a must-win scenario against Germany.
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Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2026
In August 1781, a couple of months before the end of the war, Sedgwick and his co-counsel, a law professor named Tapping Reeve, appeared in the Great Barrington Inferior Court of Common Pleas, a small wooden building where a jury would decide the destinies of Freeman and Brom.
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New York Times,
22 June 2026
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2026
Drawn into a love story with a familiar collaborator as her path intersects with women of different ages and cultural backgrounds, all fighting to take control of their own destinies, Maxine finds herself on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront the choices shaping her life.
—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
26 June 2026
The fates of their World Cup destiny remained in limbo with the score tied, 1-1, in a must-win scenario against Germany.
—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2026
In August 1781, a couple of months before the end of the war, Sedgwick and his co-counsel, a law professor named Tapping Reeve, appeared in the Great Barrington Inferior Court of Common Pleas, a small wooden building where a jury would decide the destinies of Freeman and Brom.
—
New York Times,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for destiny
fate
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Diaz said the fate of the next 250 years for the United States is dependent on how adults prepare the next generation to take on the mantle.
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The deal brings to a close a legal battle that dragged in the courts over several years between Yale New Haven Health and Prospect Medical Holdings concerning the fate of Prospect’s three Connecticut hospitals.
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