Fateful
adjective
Having important and usually negative results.
She made the fateful decision to leave her job.
Often appears as...
- fateful decision
- fateful day
adjective
Relating to fate or what happens in the future, especially when it is seen as being outside human control.
He couldn't have predicted the fateful turn of events that would ensue.
Often appears as...
- fateful turn of events
- fateful consequences
adjective
Having important and usually negative results.
She made the fateful decision to leave her job.
Often appears as...
- fateful decision
- fateful day
adjective
Relating to fate or what happens in the future, especially when it is seen as being outside human control.
He couldn't have predicted the fateful turn of events that would ensue.
Often appears as...
- fateful turn of events
- fateful consequences
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Outcome
Often suggests bad results are likely or have occurred after an action or decision.
His fateful mistake cost the company millions.
Pro Tip 2/3Dramatic Tone
Used to add drama or significance to an event that changes a situation drastically.
The game reached its fateful conclusion in the last second.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Consequences
Implies that the consequences are serious and will have a lasting impact.
A fateful encounter that changed the course of history.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Outcome
Often suggests bad results are likely or have occurred after an action or decision.
His fateful mistake cost the company millions.
Pro Tip 2/3Dramatic Tone
Used to add drama or significance to an event that changes a situation drastically.
The game reached its fateful conclusion in the last second.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Consequences
Implies that the consequences are serious and will have a lasting impact.
A fateful encounter that changed the course of history.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Outcome
Often suggests bad results are likely or have occurred after an action or decision.
His fateful mistake cost the company millions.
Pro Tip 2/3Dramatic Tone
Used to add drama or significance to an event that changes a situation drastically.
The game reached its fateful conclusion in the last second.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Consequences
Implies that the consequences are serious and will have a lasting impact.
A fateful encounter that changed the course of history.
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Everything you think you...
It's a century since we made this really fateful decision to take addicts and punish them and make them suffer, because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop. And a few years ago, I was looking at some of the addicts in my life who I love,
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Amelia Earhart Part II:...
the final chapter of the earhart mystery contains one last clue to her whereabouts before amelia set off on her fateful round-the-world flight she gave her husband another letter this time it was only to be opened if she did not return in a hard-to-read chicken scratch which
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Portraits of Afghanistan...
11 the fateful first plane that was hijacked into the world trade center but i changed my flight in the last minute to return a day earlier to asia where i was the correspondent for a large u.s newspaper i had just landed at hong kong airport when the first plane crashed
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The myth of Hades and...
She appealed to the all-seeing sun god, Helios, whose rays had long warmed her crops. Indeed, when Helios drew his golden chariot across the sky that fateful day, he saw what happened— and he knew of the deal. Out of respect and sympathy for Demeter,
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Cara E. Yar Khan: The...
I'll figure it out. And in this case, my thought was, well, if I can't walk down, I could learn to ride a horse. So that's what I did. And with that fateful decision began a four-year commitment, tossing back and forth between fear and courage
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Why should you read “The...
who are separated for 23 years after the fateful few dozen hours in which their cousin drowns, their mother’s illicit affair is revealed, and her lover is murdered. While the book is set at the point of Rahel and Estha’s reunion,
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Anniversary Nightmare PIPE...
told me the cost and it was too much and it was on the tip of my tongue to say look at a place in town but then I thought oh we'll just treat ourselves and that fateful decision is what changed the course of the rest of my life
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Walking in your truth as...
I struggled to fit in with other children at school I was different and I had more than one secret to keep one fateful day at the age of 14 I disclosed to my foster parent I was not like the
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Making peace is a...
Long distance running was not only good for my well-being but it helped me meditate and dream big. So the longer distances I ran, the bigger my dreams became. Until one fateful morning,
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Titanic 101 PIPE National...
Little by little scientists have reconstructed the ship and its encounter with the iceberg giving us a better understanding of what exactly happened on that fateful day.
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Everything you think you...
It's a century since we made this really fateful decision to take addicts and punish them and make them suffer, because we believed that would deter them; it would give them an incentive to stop. And a few years ago, I was looking at some of the addicts in my life who I love,
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part II:...
the final chapter of the earhart mystery contains one last clue to her whereabouts before amelia set off on her fateful round-the-world flight she gave her husband another letter this time it was only to be opened if she did not return in a hard-to-read chicken scratch which
Video examples
Portraits of Afghanistan...
11 the fateful first plane that was hijacked into the world trade center but i changed my flight in the last minute to return a day earlier to asia where i was the correspondent for a large u.s newspaper i had just landed at hong kong airport when the first plane crashed
Video examples
The myth of Hades and...
She appealed to the all-seeing sun god, Helios, whose rays had long warmed her crops. Indeed, when Helios drew his golden chariot across the sky that fateful day, he saw what happened— and he knew of the deal. Out of respect and sympathy for Demeter,
Video examples
Cara E. Yar Khan: The...
I'll figure it out. And in this case, my thought was, well, if I can't walk down, I could learn to ride a horse. So that's what I did. And with that fateful decision began a four-year commitment, tossing back and forth between fear and courage
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Why should you read “The...
who are separated for 23 years after the fateful few dozen hours in which their cousin drowns, their mother’s illicit affair is revealed, and her lover is murdered. While the book is set at the point of Rahel and Estha’s reunion,
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Anniversary Nightmare PIPE...
told me the cost and it was too much and it was on the tip of my tongue to say look at a place in town but then I thought oh we'll just treat ourselves and that fateful decision is what changed the course of the rest of my life
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Walking in your truth as...
I struggled to fit in with other children at school I was different and I had more than one secret to keep one fateful day at the age of 14 I disclosed to my foster parent I was not like the
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Making peace is a...
Long distance running was not only good for my well-being but it helped me meditate and dream big. So the longer distances I ran, the bigger my dreams became. Until one fateful morning,
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Titanic 101 PIPE National...
Little by little scientists have reconstructed the ship and its encounter with the iceberg giving us a better understanding of what exactly happened on that fateful day.
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Steven Gundry
American Author
One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!
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Billy Gibbons
American Musician
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Bill Clegg
American Author
In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think it had some great fateful implication.
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A. A. Gill
British Writer
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck.
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Ajit Pai
American Public Servant
In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history.
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Emma Watson
British Actress
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
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Katie Lee
American Chef
For me, the thought of spaghetti and meatballs conjures up the image of that scene where 'Lady and the Tramp' gaze into each other's eyes as they slurp a strand of pasta into a fateful kiss.
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John Cena
American Actor
America itself has been through so many challenges since that fateful day back in 1776. Our culture has been a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-go-to-work culture.
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Gregory Benford
American Physicist
True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.
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Steven Gundry
American Author
One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!
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Billy Gibbons
American Musician
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Bill Clegg
American Author
In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think it had some great fateful implication.
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A. A. Gill
British Writer
Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck.
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Ajit Pai
American Public Servant
In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history.
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Emma Watson
British Actress
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
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Katie Lee
American Chef
For me, the thought of spaghetti and meatballs conjures up the image of that scene where 'Lady and the Tramp' gaze into each other's eyes as they slurp a strand of pasta into a fateful kiss.
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John Cena
American Actor
America itself has been through so many challenges since that fateful day back in 1776. Our culture has been a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-go-to-work culture.
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Gregory Benford
American Physicist
True twins share womb chemistry and endure many fateful slings and arrows together. The fabled connection between twins is true in my case.
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Jo Brand
British Comedian
Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.
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