fortune
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But why should students and teachers have to rely on good fortune and courageous passersby for security?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Adjusted for inflation, his fortune would be worth $30.4 billion today.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Many of the nation’s largest retailers are struggling through similar automation transitions as pressure grows to boost sales and ship merchandise to homes faster without spending a fortune on additional workers or facilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
That means Musk’s fortune equates to roughly 3.1% of the entire national economy — a higher percentage than any American before him.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Eventually he acquires a large fortune and reappears in society as the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
This time, however, it comes during a reversal of Moscow’s fortunes with Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
However, their fortunes appear to have changed dramatically as the Cretaceous continued.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Korea’s stock-market fortunes are often taken as a proxy by investors for the AI trade as a whole.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
"Love it, hate it, or fear it, AI is here, rapidly becoming a key driver of countries' relative fortunes in the world economy," said Georgieva last week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
“Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s get a move on. We’ve got fortunes to claim.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
But that fortuned that it might appear, that they were not of us.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
This Getulian I say, fortuned to encounter a lion, and when he was violently assailed by him, made no more adoe but threw his mandilion or cassocke full upon his eies.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
Thus they passed upon their ways until it fortuned that this knight returned to his own house.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
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