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Fates

/ feɪts /

plural noun

  1. Greek myth the three goddesses who control the destinies of the lives of man, which are likened to skeins of thread that they spin, measure out, and at last cut See Atropos Clotho Lachesis
  2. Norse myth the Norns See Norn 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Retrieving him at least reminds soldiers that we will never abandon them to their fates, right or wrong.

Little did those 200 people know they were going to have a big say in the comedic fates of a dozen comedians.

We sat in the corner of a studio near his unfinished group of the “Fates.”

Years later, they would joke among themselves in harsh terms about the fates of folks they felt had betrayed them.

It was a strategic error to tie their fates to those regimes.

He noticed the date on the hotel calendar, and realised that the Fates had another ten days in which to drown him.

Perhaps the fates have ordained me to be the historian of wine, in the very meaning of my name—ger-wn, not gr-wn.

As was to be looked for not all men fared alike in fortune, many fled & many who thus made their escape met differing fates.

I, followed the fates of my little slum-boys—and what I saw was that Tammany Hall was getting them.

The threads from which the tissue of history is being woven are ever in unceasing and rapid motion in the hands of the Fates.

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