similar fate
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsimilarandfate
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similar
adjective
uk/ˈsɪm.ɪ.lər/us/ˈsɪm.ə.lɚ/
looking or being almost, but not exactly, ...
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fate
noun
uk/feɪt/us/feɪt/
what happens to a particular person or thing, especially something final or negative, such as death ...
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(Definition ofsimilarandfatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Evolutionary analysis of law risks asimilarfate, but there are nonetheless significant differences.
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Other creatures, most notably the fly, met asimilarfate.
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Seeds in dung left on feeding trails suffered asimilarfate.
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Of the three junior faculty hired about the same time, none of us 'survived', asimilarfateto previous young faculty.
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Asimilarfateis in store for any and all intelligent species that evolve on a water planet.
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Several downtown buildings collapsed as flood waters ate away at their rotting foundations, and no doubt asimilarfatebefell a number of cheaply built houses of the poorer refugees.
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He suffered a particular injustice, as did anyone who suffered asimilarfate.
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I hope that he will not suffer asimilarfate.
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Other information officers suffered a somewhatsimilarfate.
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This country is not prepared to see asimilarfatebefall the whole of our fishing industry.
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Will the proclaimed new strategy suffer asimilarfateto its predecessor?
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Asimilarfatemust not befall the groundwater directive.
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The calf subsidy has suffered asimilarfate.
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I hope that asimilarfatewill not befall the pro-programme for overseas volunteers, in which a very sharp increase is being undertaken.
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I am rather afraid the result of the present inquiry that is to be made will be asimilarfate.
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My fear is that the aircraft industry will suffer asimilarfateto that of the building industry.
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The destruction of his house and the almostsimilarfatewhich he apprehends for his constituency is indeed a dark prospect.
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Children witness this and some know that asimilarfatevery likely awaits them.
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We are getting pretty short of coal mines these days, but there is no reason why sea fishing should share asimilarfate.
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I hate to think that asimilarfatecould befall all the other professions that we have been discussing this evening.
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