fortune
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There is no secret, really, more than a succession of small steps and, as far as education and career goes, good fortune.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
He had the best defense attorney his fortune could buy, but he was taking no chances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The company’s reversal of fortune follows a high-profile implosion in 2017.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
During his rise to fame and fortune, Barcola has spoken about the importance of his family in keeping him grounded.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
I had to let all that go, together with my dreams of being paid for months of suffering and going home with a small fortune that could turn our lives around.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Millions of people have made fortunes in such ordinary, operational businesses selling everyday goods and services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
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
Cavenagh and his backers have been true to their word, they have stumped up fortunes.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Penelope’s bitterness about the recent collapse of her own fortunes grew tenfold.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
Ah, M. didn’t fortune right when she fortuned that.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
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 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun
Vocabulary lists containing fortune
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