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the warning that the lack of an advanced education will fate a person to a lifetime of below-average earnings
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Recent Examples of fated
Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Elsewhere, the Dolphins are engaged in a full-on tank, and the Jets are the Jets, fated for failure until further notice.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
Watch out for whatever is fated this go-around.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Sparkling Miss Camberg was fated to wed the man whose name so closely mirrored her own.
—Miranda Seymour, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
If so, this romance will feel fated, as if it were meant to be.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026
Those who keep going aren’t always confident, or tougher than anyone else, or fated to a grand destiny.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Born in the small town of Mallard, Louisiana, a set of identical twins are fated for opposite lives.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
There is a healthy amount of respect between the Rams and Seahawks, and — at least from the Rams in the locker room Sunday night — a feeling that this matchup was fated.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
Verb
Landscape painters, lithographers, and photographers introduced Easterners to the Romantic West of sublime landscapes filled with tow-ering peaks and deep canyons and Indians who seemed to exist only in small numbers, fated to disappear as American pioneers swept westward.
—Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
Elsewhere, the Dolphins are engaged in a full-on tank, and the Jets are the Jets, fated for failure until further notice.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Mar. 2026
Watch out for whatever is fated this go-around.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
Sparkling Miss Camberg was fated to wed the man whose name so closely mirrored her own.
—Miranda Seymour, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
If so, this romance will feel fated, as if it were meant to be.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026
Those who keep going aren’t always confident, or tougher than anyone else, or fated to a grand destiny.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Born in the small town of Mallard, Louisiana, a set of identical twins are fated for opposite lives.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
There is a healthy amount of respect between the Rams and Seahawks, and — at least from the Rams in the locker room Sunday night — a feeling that this matchup was fated.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fated
Verb
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While Nikola Jokic appears destined to finish behind Victor Wembanyama in the MVP voting, another race remains very much in doubt.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
5 Apr. 2026
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Earlier this month, several outlets covered how garments destined for brands were piling up at airports in Bangladesh and India after Gulf carriers cancelled flights, with more than half of Bangladesh’s air cargo typically moving through Gulf hubs.—
Assef Shaikh,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Is Trump citizenship order doomed?—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Perhaps the international biennial is not doomed to fade away like the art of the medieval troubadour or the magic-lantern show.—
Daniel Birnbaum,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude disregarded all threats of legal action, directing Running Fence to complete its predestined voyage into the sea.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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