fortune
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In her time, and in her opinion, a sensible woman’s paths to financial freedom were limited to hoping for a windfall or making one’s fortune off others’ backs as a madam.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
A vocal champion of the movement, Bankman-Fried said he went into finance to make a fortune he could give away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
They ultimately expect to have most of their fortune managed through their revamped family office, including oversight of money managed by outside firms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
It sounds like your family has an especially hurtful way of invalidating your very reasonable request to not spend a fortune on travel.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
This was Mon Lay Won, Chinatown’s Delmonico; she’d spent a small fortune on this meal, this night, this...
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
But it certainly adds a fresh twist to a season of fluctuating fortunes at the front, in which the only real constant has been Kimi Antonelli, as the championship heads into its final stretch.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The number of single-family offices, which manage the fortunes and affairs of a single family, roughly reflects the surge in wealth at the top.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Tax records show the nonprofit’s fortunes rose for a time after Konca launched it either in 2018 or 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
“The Cosby Show” represents massive, transformative success, not only to the sitcom genre itself and NBC’s prime-time fortunes, but in its capacity as a symbol of middle-class possibility.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
Zola himself also embarked upon a project as vast and all-encompassing as Wagner’s Ring, a twenty-book epic called Les Rougon-Macquart, which follows the fortunes of a family living in mid-nineteenth-century France.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
In May 2015, already a very successful MLM seller, Igor Alberts was invited to a OneCoin event in Dubai, where he met lots of people, all apparently making fortuned with this new currency.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2019
Alfred Milner was born 71 years ago, the son of a modestly fortuned country physician.
From Time Magazine Archive
My commander fortuned to come up with this Captain How's ship and some were for taking her, and some not.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
And it fortuned after iij. days, they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and posing them.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days scarce ten amongst vs could either goe, or well stand, such extreame weaknes and moknes oppressed vs.
From Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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