fortune
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Mr. Winter’s miracle year unfolded with so much industry recognition and good fortune that a backlash followed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
There may have been a stroke of fortune about the title win, but few can deny Evans earned it.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
There will be fortune tellers, dancing and aerial artistry and acrobatics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Before Mal could snatch her hand away, the fortune teller had seized it.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Many of those fans had come from all corners of the world, and had spent or borrowed fortunes to make it, just to say: "I was there."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The recent board meeting marked an about-face for Chandrasekaran’s fortunes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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
I only hope the fortunes and future of Rose Hill are as bright as my own.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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
When sir James Audley began to set forward to his enemies, it fortuned to sir Eustace d'Aubrecicourt as ye shall hear after.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
It fortuned out of the thickest wood A ramping Lyon rushed suddeinly, Hunting full greedy after salvage blood.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
Behold, The sower went out to sow, and it fortuned as he sowed, that some fell by the wayside, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
Vocabulary lists containing fortune
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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