fortune
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“It was my great good fortune to have worked with Dolly in a film called ‘Steel Magnolias.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
The article had pictures of Durham Prison, revealing that "the men who were found guilty of stealing a fortune in mailbags spend their week stitching them for nine shillings".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
He made a fortune in Russia before he served as Georgia’s prime minister between 2012 and 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Plenty of business scions have inherited a fortune and used it to make a slightly bigger hoard.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Hamilton himself was a kind of Horatio Alger hero who aspired to fame more than fortune, but he understood the world of banking, investing, and speculating from within.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Diametrically opposed to the doomers are the accelerationists, who believe in technology's advancement, its inevitability and its fundamental benefit for society -- and who also make their fortunes on its success.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
And despite the bloodshed, it was a gamble that paid off, reaping countless benefits for the isolated and impoverished country, transforming both its economic and military fortunes.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
These more developed countries have served as a warning for Albania: What the locals here realize is that they still have time to approach their coastal fortunes differently.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
The financial manipulations that undergirded their fortunes get scrutinized as theft from the public purse, praise for their courage and perspicacity yields to condemnation for their conduct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Blacks also exercised their recently gained voting rights to boost their fortunes.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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
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 Eugene Field
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
It fortuned also vnder the gouernment of the foresayde Master Boppo, that one Syr Martine a Golin beeing accompanied with another knight, went into the countrey to see howe the Prussians were imployed.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt
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