fortune
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They also form a partnership and set out to make their fortune and save the planet with a tidal-energy company that they claim will “power our civilization by slinging a yoke around the moon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Some people are going to make a fortune in the future using AI to pick stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
People sit on top of the world one moment, and they experience a brutal reversal of fortune on the stock market the next.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Prosecutors also moved Wednesday to solidify their argument that Burke would have lost a fortune if Hernandez spoke out against him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
When I thought he was finished, I asked him, “Did Upton tell you how he did that rainmaking?You’d make a fortune if you could do it.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
Chad was a double-A first baseman with the Texas Rangers in 2009 and closely followed his dad’s fortunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
For generations, these documents were little more than family heirlooms that served as painful reminders of fortunes lost after the revolution led by Fidel Castro’s bearded guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
South Korea's president urged financial watchdogs to take "necessary measures" over new highly speculative investment products tied to the fortunes of the nation's AI chipmakers after share price declines left investors nursing losses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 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
What standing could such dedicated pacifists enjoy among veterans of the Revolution, who, as Jackson put it, “at the risk of their lives and fortunes, secured to the community their liberty and property?”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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
Please you, I’ll tell you as we pass along, That you will wonder what hath fortuned.
From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George
For his shameful ende: fortuned for lacke of lore.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander
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 Mason, Eugene
Vocabulary lists containing fortune
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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