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fate
/feɪt/
noun
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
An event or a situation which is inevitable in the fullness of time.
verb
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
"The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur."
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