How to Use fait accompli in a Sentence

fait accompli

noun

• By the time we learned about the decision, it was already a fait accompli.
• But for most Swifties, the idea that the lyrics would be updated was a fait accompli.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 July 2023
• The outcome on the Texas voting bill may be a fait accompli.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 15 July 2021
• The Trojans tried to respond in the fourth quarter with a 10-8 flurry, but the game was a fait accompli.
  — Indy Star Ai Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2023
• Philly is about out of runway after the NFC's top seed once seemed a fait accompli ...
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2023
• With nine games left in the regular season, the No. 1 seed in the East that seemed like a fait accompli back in the fall is two games out of reach.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
• That’s not a criticism that this was some sort of fait accompli.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• The Trojans tried to respond in the final quarter with a 22-20 flurry, but the game was a fait accompli.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Mar. 2023
• Don't take the situation as fait accompli; much could change in the next few weeks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2019
• That’s not to say its present, second-tier status is a fait accompli.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2019
• Yet, this scenario is no fait accompli and the means to break the vicious circle already lie in our hands.
  — Paul Hockenos, CNN, 22 July 2022
• Yet what Evergrande shows us is that this is far from a fait accompli.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2021
• The feds might not realize it yet, but legal weed is a fait accompli.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 26 Oct. 2020
• The Patriots tried to respond in the final quarter with an 18-17 flurry, but the game was a fait accompli.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2023
• Maybe this won’t wind up as the year the Patriots win a seventh Super Bowl, but that is hardly a fait accompli.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
• As of today, the government shutdown is in its 23rd day, and Peaches is far from a fait accompli.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2019
• Brendan and Hunter are up first, and as the firefighter trainee has a 40-pound advantage over Hunter, the result is a fait accompli.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 June 2021
• By now Daniela Ryf was visible ahead, and the final outcome a fait accompli.
  — Matt Fitzgerald, Outside Online, 4 Jan. 2021
• And then there’s the case of you and me, the public, who don’t get a look behind the curtain, especially if this is presented to the Board as fait accompli.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2019
• But if and when a proposal arrives, its approval is far from a fait accompli.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• So while the use of AI did improve outcomes, it shouldn't be taken as an easy sell or a fait accompli that improvements will emerge.
  — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• But Roginsky sees the end of daily cleaning as a fait accompli.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2021
• Nor would the winner of ruby red Idaho’s four electoral votes, a fait accompli even at this early hour.
  — Maria L. La Ganga Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2020
• In previous eras, Round 2 would have been fait accompli.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2021
• The broad booster authorization has been viewed as something of a fait accompli for weeks.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• Your most powerful argument is the fact of a fait accompli.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2022
• For example, does the design team arrive with a new concept as a fait accompli?
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
• Egypt has now accepted the dam as fait accompli – it’s already more than 70% complete.
  — Ashok Swain, Quartz Africa, 31 July 2020
• China’s goal would likely be to seize Taiwan as quickly as possible, to present the U.S. with a fait accompli.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• So the couple presented him with a fait accompli: in 1601, after four years of courtship, they were secretly married by a priest who was Donne’s friend.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024