fortune
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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
Walter, 66 years old, built his fortune as one of the founders of bond manager and investment bank Guggenheim Partners in 1999.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Spending a fortune and making us much worse.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
"If you put in the effort and make wise judgements, good fortune will come your way three times in your life," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
It went to so many people that no one ended up getting a fortune.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
Cavenagh and his backers have been true to their word, they have stumped up fortunes.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Martin’s fantasy world of Westeros in “House of the Dragon” is a particularly cruel place to be sensitive, whether to the declining fortunes of a kingdom or the machinations of the spirit world.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
But when it comes to the weather, fortunes will be mixed.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
She kept pulling new ones from her sack, cracking them open, and reading the fortunes.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
He that shuld accuse any man wrongfully, if he fortuned afterward to be broughte into iudgement, he suffered the punishement ordeyned for false accusers.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt
The seconde gentylman, whanne he came to bedde, fortuned to fynde the same rynge, and whan he hadde stayde som tyme departed.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt
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
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