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Man of Destiny

American  

noun

  1. epithet of Napoleon I.


Example Sentences

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President Kais Saied Saied clearly feels that he is a man of destiny.

From BBC

With language that at times sounded more like that of a president-elect than a candidate, Mr. Biden attempted to portray himself as a man of destiny.

From New York Times

To Aeneas he sent this message, that he had a daughter forbidden by heaven to wed with any except a foreigner, and that he believed the Trojan chief was this man of destiny.

From Literature

But those who eventually supported Napoleon — the Butticidaires — were attracted to a man of destiny.

From Washington Post

As he later wrote in his memoirs, Churchill believed de Gaulle was “l’homme du destin” — the man of destiny.

From New York Times