destinies

plural of destiny

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of destinies 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 But Calle, like any writer, sketches her characters and frames their destinies. Elisa Wouk Almino editor, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026 The Paris Club, an informal forum of representatives from creditor countries largely in the Global North, has steered the destinies of nations in financial peril, restructuring over half a trillion dollars in sovereign debt since its first meeting in 1956. Sven Van Mourik, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for destinies
Noun
  • Similarly, for the protagonist of Conrad’s story, Captain Whalley, the true life is the life of ships, and changes of fates onshore seem only laterally relevant, near unreal.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Next came an exhibition around a creepy Howdy Doody-ish figure that met countless violent fates while being cast about mechanistically on chains in 2016.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • This streak has undoubtedly changed the Phillies’ fortunes, no matter what happens from here.
    Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
  • If Germany won the war, banks and great industries might surrender fortunes.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026

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“Destinies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destinies. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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