fate

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Sadly, this fate is all too common for escaped bison; a 2006 breakout of five bison in Colorado Springs ended with the police having to shoot the animals.

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  1. noun The supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events.
  2. noun The inevitable events predestined by this force.
  3. noun A final result or consequence; an outcome.
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  • Sadly, this fate is all too common for escaped bison; a 2006 breakout of five bison in Colorado Springs ended with the police having to shoot the animals. —  mental_floss Blog
  • If your fate is already present in the flesh like in Unlimited Blade Works and wants to kill you with a vengeance, is it possible for you to not walk that path? —  AnimeBlogger.net Antenna
  • The only option that will disable wars as a fate is a united peaceful struggle of the people, and it should be. —  Rastî
  • The previous one to suffer such a fate was the 1991 Australian grand prix in Adelaide which was abandoned after barely a dozen laps when Nigel Mansell crashed his Williams in pursuit of Ayrton Senna's winning McLaren-Honda. —  The Guardian World News
  • As for you … Your fate will be the most delicious part … Imprisoned within the very vessel of your doom … Forced to watch; no, even better, to commit the things that go so very much against the core of what your being used to be. —  Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
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destiny ·  fortune ·  death ·  circumstance ·  destruction ·  misfortune ·  existence ·  nature ·  misery ·  danger ·  thought ·  tragedy

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  1. Middle English, from Old French fat, from Latin fātum, prophecy, doom, from neuter past participle of fārī, to speak; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fate = Spanish hado = Portuguese fado = Italian fato, fate, from Latin fatum, a prophetic declaration, oracle, usually destiny, fate (plural Fata, the Fates; Middle Latin fata, feminine singular, later Old French fee, later Middle English fay, a fairy), neuter of fatus, past participle of fari, = Greek φάναι, speak: see fame, fable.
 

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