as in fate
a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand
I just knew that it wasn't my destiny to end up in a dead-end job
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Irrespective of how fully and tenderly the characters are drawn, destiny is written in still bolder strokes.
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Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
The tale toggles between Los Angeles during the 1950s McCarthy era, and 2018, when Chazan's granddaughter Gemma decamps to his old Carmel cottage to meet her own personal and professional destiny.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 2 July 2025
Across Europe, renewables surged dramatically in 2024; the war in Ukraine has pushed the Continent toward controlling its own energy destiny.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 9 July 2025
What’s surprising is the utter disregard — willfully or naively — for blatant flaws in the communist worldview, where Big Government controls our destiny at the expense of a free market that made New York prosperous and appealing to college graduates in the first place.
—Luka Ladan, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025
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Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
The tale toggles between Los Angeles during the 1950s McCarthy era, and 2018, when Chazan's granddaughter Gemma decamps to his old Carmel cottage to meet her own personal and professional destiny.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 2 July 2025
Across Europe, renewables surged dramatically in 2024; the war in Ukraine has pushed the Continent toward controlling its own energy destiny.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 9 July 2025
What’s surprising is the utter disregard — willfully or naively — for blatant flaws in the communist worldview, where Big Government controls our destiny at the expense of a free market that made New York prosperous and appealing to college graduates in the first place.
—Luka Ladan, New York Daily News, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for destiny
fate
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Lawmakers have blown past the July 1 deadline to pass a budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, creating uncertainty about the fate of state support for CVI.—
Andrea May Sahouri,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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Is that going to be baby Franklin's fate in the MCU?—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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“Destiny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destiny. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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