Fates

/ (feɪts) /

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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 cutSee Atropos, Clotho, Lachesis

Norse myth the NornsSee Norn 1

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Words nearby Fates

fat depot, fate, fated, fateful, fate map, Fates, fat farm, fat-finger, fath., fathead, fatheaded

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How to use Fates in a sentence

Retrieving him at least reminds soldiers that we will never abandon them to their fates, right or wrong.
We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night|Nathan Bradley Bethea|June 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Little did those 200 people know they were going to have a big say in the comedic fates of a dozen comedians.
My Rocky Time As A Woman Writer on ‘SNL’|Carol Leifer|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We sat in the corner of a studio near his unfinished group of the “Fates.”
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Years later, they would joke among themselves in harsh terms about the fates of folks they felt had betrayed them.
The Hillary-Haters’ Book Club Will Never Run Out of Things to Read|Michelle Cottle|January 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It was a strategic error to tie their fates to those regimes.
The Holy Land’s Endangered Christians|Jamie Dettmer|January 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He noticed the date on the hotel calendar, and realised that the Fates had another ten days in which to drown him.
Uncanny Tales|Various
Perhaps the fates have ordained me to be the historian of wine, in the very meaning of my name—ger-wn, not gr-wn.
The Art of Drinking|Georg Gottfried Gervinus
As was to be looked for not all men fared alike in fortune, many fled & many who thus made their escape met differing fates.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)|Snorri Sturluson
I, followed the fates of my little slum-boys—and what I saw was that Tammany Hall was getting them.
The Profits of Religion|Upton Sinclair
The threads from which the tissue of history is being woven are ever in unceasing and rapid motion in the hands of the Fates.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science|Various