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destinies

noun

plural of destiny

as in fates

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 destinies Cannes is a maker of destinies. — Norine Raja, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026 People want to control their own destinies. — Jon Ostenson, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 And for all of that time, our destinies as Nations have been interlinked. — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026 And for all of that time, our destinies as Nations have been interlinked. — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2026 But Calle, like any writer, sketches her characters and frames their destinies. — Elisa Wouk Almino editor, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026 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. — 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 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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As the book published, the two wanted to know the fates of some of the US pilots lost in combat in Thailand, including McKinney.

— Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
As the pressure builds on Putin, elites around him are thinking about their own fates, and finding the likes of Aleksandr Lunin to voice their fears.

— Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

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The diverging fortunes of the poorest and wealthiest Americans has emerged as a key theme in the US economy, and experts say AI is playing a significant role.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
Miners flooded the dusty flats surrounding this area after three Irish prospectors, who had immigrated to Australia in the hopes of making their fortunes, accidentally stumbled across gold while looking for water in 1893.

— Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026

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