escape a fate
Frequency: 7.08.8 per million words
To get away from a particular (usually bad) destiny.
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Examples (10)
- The hero managed to escape a terrible fate through sheer determination.
- She worked hard to escape the fate of poverty that had plagued her family.
- By leaving the country, he hoped to escape the political fate awaiting him.
- The rebels were fortunate to escape the fate of their captured comrades.
- Quick thinking helped them escape a fate worse than death.
- The company restructured to escape the fate of bankruptcy.
- She studied medicine to escape the fate of an arranged marriage.
- The witness protection program allowed him to escape his criminal fate.
- They fled at dawn to escape the cruel fate that awaited them.
- Education was her only way to escape the fate of generations before her.