fortune
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Elizabeth Holmes was once celebrated as the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, with an estimated fortune of $4.5 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Carnegie argued in his 1889 essay "The Gospel of Wealth" that "the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced," and by his death had given away the bulk of his fortune, about $350 million.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Still, fortune eventually smiles upon them, and they meet again and wed before a tragedy sends Benjamin fleeing back to the sea, and eventually to America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
But I still think the soup party is one of the finest ways to gather people without spending a fortune or exhausting yourself in the process.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Good fortune, good fortune!” said Samir, grinning with his bushy mustache.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Nan Ransohoff of payments firm Stripe has described the moment as a "third wave" of American philanthropy, after the industrial fortunes of the late 19th century and the internet billionaires of recent decades.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
And they will be without several key players counted on to reverse their fortunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Perhaps it was Nixon’s stunning and decisive primary win in August that made a progressive Black woman the face of the Democratic Party’s political fortunes in Florida.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
This time, however, it comes during a reversal of Moscow’s fortunes with Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Penelope’s bitterness about the recent collapse of her own fortunes grew tenfold.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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
The seconde gentylman, whanne he came to bedde, fortuned to fynde the same rynge, and whan he hadde stayde som tyme departed.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt
Montrose had almost famished, but that he fortuned in his misery to light upon a small cottage in that wilderness, where he was supplied with some milk and bread.'
From Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun
Ah, M. didn’t fortune right when she fortuned that.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
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