ultimate fate

collocation in English

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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/
us
/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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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 ofultimateandfatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I will examine recent findings in cosmology and their implications for the emergence of life in the universe and theultimatefateof life.
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A more cautious approach to this issue, however, would be to focus on theultimatefateof these fertilised dysmorphic oocytes.
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Some of these have not changed in centuries: what is the origin andultimatefateof the universe?
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Theirultimatefatein the perivitelline space is still unknown.
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The historical record is detailed enough to reconstruct the origin, structure, internal evolution, interactions, andultimatefateof the many varieties of religious faith that existed during the period.
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Dicymbe species cannot therefore be projected as theultimatefateof these stands.
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Theultimatefateof the £ depends on whether we run our affairs properly.
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Many children are unaware of theultimatefateof the animal.
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More important, he is preventing what would otherwise be theultimatefateof the house.
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What is theultimatefateof large houses which are not cut up into flats?
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The high proportion of such people among the homeless is a sign of theirultimatefateand shows what community care has brought for them.
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Theultimatefateof all this depends on the availability of money.
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I would not be surprised if this were theultimatefateof the building societies.
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We never learn theultimatefateof these hijackers.
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He makes a presumption about theultimatefateof the metropolitan counties.
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Whether this particular site is reserved for industrial purposes or for residential purposes theultimatefateof the allotment holders will be the same.
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I can assure him that itsultimatefateis that it will be sold.
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Let us, then, postpone all questions of theultimatefateand utility of public schools.
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It may put off the evil day, but theultimatefateof the industry will be worse.
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