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fateful

 adjective
     
fate‧ful [usually before noun]
having an important, especially bad, effect on future events
fateful day/night/year etc
The goalkeeper on that fateful day in 1954 was Fred Martin.
When his rent was raised, he made the fateful decision to move north.
—fatefully adverb
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