fortune
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Mexico’s billionaire Zambrano family, heirs to a fortune in cement and other holdings, acquired the collection in 2023, Santander announced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Her father, Terry, 75, made his fortune in the oil and gas industry, later selling the majority of its assets to Royal Dutch for a reported $4.7 billion in 2010.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
With its jokes about the inner workings of Hollywood agents at CAA and the trappings of fame and fortune, “Gail Daughtry” could easily feel like inside baseball.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
To fix that, Dangote returned to the playbook that earned him his fortune.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
She’d wanted to go out and celebrate his new fortune.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
Many in Labour are optimistic that he can begin to turn around their fortunes after disastrous results in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Senedd and councils across England.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In many cases, it wasn’t the internet that changed their fortunes, but financial restructurings involving private equity that turned fulfillment protocol away from customer service and toward speed and efficiency.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates made headlines decades ago when two of the world’s richest men pledged to give away the bulk of their fortunes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Six minutes and 26 additional choruses later, Gonsalves and Ellington had completely changed the fortunes of the band, of the Rhode Island festival, and even American music itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
When other German factory owners took their profits and fled Kraków, intent on saving their lives and fortunes, Schindler increased his efforts to save his Jews.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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
For, being unfriend to Arthur and his court, Well wist he this grim Earl would bless that sport Of fortune which had fortuned him so well To have to starve his sovereign in a cell.—
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
Now it fortuned that the king was minded to wed his daughter Persis unto a neighboring prince, a high and mighty prince, but one whom Persis loved not, neither could she love.
From The Holy Cross and Other Tales by Field, Eugene
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