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

Example Sentences

The fates of tech companies have become more intertwined as they pour hundreds of billions of dollars into each other, as well as data centers, AI research and lucrative employee compensation packages.

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“And what of all those frightening things she told me about the children being in danger, with dire fates foretold, curses upon their heads, and so on? Not to mention her insistence that I keep my hair dyed this drab, dark color. ‘Be on the lookout for unexpected events,’ she said, but surely that is impractical advice.

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It would be days before the families of the children who were lost there learned their fates.

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All they had going for them, from the point of view of Wall Street financial engineers, was that their financial fates could be misconstrued as uncorrelated.

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Condorcet had unshakeable faith in enlightened experts to manage French citizens as well as the fates of those outside Europe who were, as he put it, “vegetating in the infant condition of early times.”

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