fortune
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It’s a reversal of fortune from a quarter-century ago, when media giants, including Rupert Murdoch’s Fox, recognized there were huge profits to be made by launching regional sports networks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Here’s one more ingredient in the reversal of fortune for some malls: claw machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Keep putting 3% to 5% of your income aside for your child’s future, as long as your good fortune and smart financial planning lasts.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Spending a fortune and making us much worse.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Look, you’re making a fortune as this stuff keeps going up.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
But these days, the two brothers are very much outsiders—playing the role of agitators in the kind of drama that can erupt in wealthy families as sizable fortunes filter down through the generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Brown family members have used their fortunes to buy horse farms, collect art and amass a weapons collection—including Buffalo Bill’s rifle—now displayed at a local museum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But his fortunes faded amid a dying market for syndicated TV and clashes with a distributor and partner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But fortunes reversed in 2020, when new regulations from Beijing seeking to limit excessive borrowing in the real estate sector complicated Evergrande's ability to make payments.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
He was proud, I think, to know that he’d turned things around, that he’d saved our fortunes, and that he had tugged my mom back over to his side.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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
And it fortuned that he tarried many days in Ioppa with one Simon a tanner.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
Ah, M. didn’t fortune right when she fortuned that.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
It fortuned that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever, and of a bloody flux to whom Paul entered in and prayed, and laid his hands on him and healed him.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
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