fated 1 of 2

past tense of fate

fated

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adjective

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Recent Examples of fated
Adjective
Schwerner was fated to go down in American history as one of the three Civil Rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025 It’s fated for Anderson to thrive. Maya Alzaben, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025 Harold Hardrada, fated to become the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, has serious family issues. Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025 What David and Giovanni suffer in the novel doesn’t merely happen to them, contingent upon circumstance; it is fated, the fulfillment of a logic that is homophobic at its heart. Garth Greenwell, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025 Unfortunately, we are fated to see two versions of the same events every time. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025 Libra Season paired with Mars in Scorpio is about teamwork that feels fated, partnerships that feel like destiny, and art that heals the collective. Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 29 Aug. 2025 But these issues will be resolved because more viable donor organs, whether from humans, other species or created in a lab, means fewer people will be fated to sit (and perhaps die) on a transplant waiting list. David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025 The themes this eclipse brings, celebrity astrologer Kyle Thomas tells PEOPLE, could become more prominent (or fated and destined) in the months to come. Victoria Edel, People.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fated
Verb
  • These stories don’t require any element of surprise; the appeal of this kind of romance is built on anticipation, on our expectation that people who are destined to be together will in fact get together.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Per reports, the 29-year-old, who once seemed destined to be at the top of golf's world rankings, will play in the Nedbank Golf Challenge in December.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement If Earth is ultimately doomed—if the sun will begin to incinerate us in about a billion years—Mars wouldn’t do as a safe harbor, since that planet would be put to the torch as well.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The drama doesn’t stop, and the trailer for The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 3 just dropped, revealing that MomTok could be doomed.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Fated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fated. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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