fortune
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Plenty of business scions have inherited a fortune and used it to make a slightly bigger hoard.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Antonio Gracias and Steve Jurvetson made a fortune from their bets on SpaceX when it was still a risky space startup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
He had the best defense attorney his fortune could buy, but he was taking no chances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
But Francesca Jones had better fortune as she returned to win her first-round match against Poland's Magda Linette after it was interrupted by rain on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“The very first day, we said, ‘There’s going to come a time when we’re going to make a fortune shorting this stuff.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Three games into a season is indeed too small a sample size to predict a club's fortunes.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Last year, the company’s fortunes took another hit when the White House introduced auto tariffs, which Volkswagen has said would cost it almost $6 billion a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
With around 40% of the US stock market concentrated in ten companies heavily invested in AI, Nvidia's fortunes matter far beyond Silicon Valley.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
As people come to her for their palms to be read or their fortunes told, she puts on a show.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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 the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
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 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various
And it fortuned them to mete the husbande of the said gentyll woman and desyred hym of his iudgment, shewynge hym all the hole mater.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt
Vocabulary lists containing fortune
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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