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In short, he is "not an obvious candidate for an unusual fate".
(Dying while supposedly trying to escape police custody, sometimes while still in shackles, is not an unusual fate in Nigeria).
Even so, the bodies of three Eritreans were found Sept. 24 in the northern Sinai Desert, not an unusual fate for those held in torture cells.
We may think we're particularly cursed, that our current uncertainty is an unusual fate, but rather, uncertainty is deeply embedded in the structure of reality.
He was so ineffective in Game 3 that Carlisle benched him for the entire second half — an unusual fate for a player who was regarded as a difference maker when he was acquired.
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In his poem "Rather," Thomas Lux lists the cruelest, most unusual fates he can imagine.
While you may have the self-control and good judgment that Rodney didn't possess, it's still easy to find yourself in unusual circumstances, where fate takes you for a walk down a street you've never been.
That's not the most unusual of fates.
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