adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
day
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The first delivery of post came and went on that fateful day , no letter.
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The scores of journalists who had descended on New Madrid for the fateful day ended up reporting on one another instead.
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Years later, all that she would remember of that fateful day were two things.
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The least valued attribute may come to the rescue on some fateful day when that very quality is required.
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Tony is one of two silent victims of that fateful day .
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One fateful day , he was sitting on his horse when a stunt went awry in a John Ford picture.
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How different Duncton had become in the decades since those fateful days !
decision
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Contemplating his career on a prestigious but uncharismatic magazine, Marchbank made a rapid and fateful decision .
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For many entrepreneurs, picking the right partner is one of the most fateful decisions . 7.
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It was he who made the fateful decision to bowl first, on a pitch that turned out to be a featherbed.
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For this is a fateful decision .
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She made that fateful decision at age fourteen with the substantial help of the anti-abortion groups.
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When his rent was raised in 1970, he was forced to make a fateful decision .
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I made a second fateful decision when a couple of drunken tourists beat me to a cab on Hudson Street.
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Whether to try cotton again is a potentially fateful decision for Valley farmers.
night
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Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet.
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Then in mid-July, shortly after his requested transfer to the U. S. Army finally came through, the fateful night arrived.
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Or rather the mid-evening of that fateful night .
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One whose spider-tattooed face Yeremi recalled clearly from that fateful night !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In just these few days the name had taken on a resonance, a sense of fateful event.
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There were to be extraordinary inconsistencies in the description of that fateful call by the main participants.
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To go no further back than the nineteenth century, we have had the fateful dates 1815, 1871, 1914.
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Whether to try cotton again is a potentially fateful decision for Valley farmers.
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Years later, all that she would remember of that fateful day were two things.