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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 Noir, by contrast, brooks no such substitutions, because its conception of authenticity cannot allow for alternative destinies. — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 People looking out for themselves have compromised the fates of those who have less control over their destinies. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 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 People want to control their own destinies. — Jon Ostenson, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 Cannes is a maker of destinies. — Norine Raja, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026 And for all of that time, our destinies as Nations have been interlinked. — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026

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The team's research clarifies how the environments around infant stars directly affect planetary fates and, in turn, the survival of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, that are potentially capable of hosting life.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026
The fates of Jane Doe and Nolan Wells leave us longing for the Golden Rule, writes columnist LZ Granderson.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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Among investors, even some of the world’s most successful contrarians—who make their fortunes betting against conventional wisdom—are embracing the idea that AI could yield bigger benefits more rapidly than any past technological advance.

— RUCHIR SHARMA, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026
Some gangs went out of business, and several mob bosses lost their fortunes.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

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