fortune
Example Sentences
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Many of the women at the top of the billionaires list inherited their wealth from fortunes that their parents or grandparents built.
They have nice lives, they make a fortune, their companies are huge, they already own their yachts and whatever it is they want.
Kikuo and Shunsuke’s fortunes shift over the decades — one of them will literally be kicked when he’s down on two separate occasions — but Lee doesn’t let us settle on a definitive impression of either performer.
From Los Angeles Times
The author chronicles the troubled youth and “vagrant years” of Tennyson, up until 1850, when the still clean-shaven poet experienced a sudden change of fortune.
Maybe excitement around a social platform can turn the stock’s fortunes around in 2026.
From Barron's
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