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good fortune

noun as in big win

noun as in boon

noun as in fluke

noun as in stroke of luck

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Example Sentences

That good fortune meant CNN had the only TV correspondent on the scene.

Hitchcock had the historical good fortune to have worked from silent films through television.

“We do not have the good fortune at this time,” he says, without explaining why.

“Only in retrospect did we appreciate our good fortune in being part of a utopian experiment in American journalism,” she writes.

“He had the good fortune of dying on Halloween,” Fajuri says.

And the girl, scarce believing her good fortune, departed with a speed that bordered on the ludicrous.

He conspired against Richelieu, to whom he was indebted for much of his good fortune, and to whose resentment he fell a victim.

This great obstacle being removed, he wisely determined to make the most of his good fortune.

I had the good fortune to be one of the two; and the praise I got, and the benefit of the money made me contented for a time.

So Planner spake, scarcely crediting his good fortune, and almost mad with joy at his deliverance.

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On this page you'll find 328 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to good fortune, such as: accidental discovery, chance discovery, luck, and serendipity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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