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
That could put at risk Wilson’s fortune, estimated at roughly $6 billion, and throws into question just how much pressure he will be able to apply on Lululemon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
While Root needed fortune, Jordan Cox once again impressed with a composed 59, a further claim for the Essex man to be in the XI for the first Test against South Africa in December.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Plenty of business scions have inherited a fortune and used it to make a slightly bigger hoard.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
After a while, the girls celebrated their good fortune by breaking into the provisions.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
At the conference in San Francisco this week, the pursuit of fortunes seemed to mostly trump any mounting existential concerns or fears over potential government restrictions on AI.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"There's a sizeable market to conquer," said Versloot, who was brought in just over a year ago to turn around BIC's fortunes after years of depressed sales.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 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
Doughty grunted agreement, surveying the action taking place at the tables below—dice, cards, Makker’s Wheel, fortunes won and lost, and a delicious slice of all of it came to Rollins.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
When sir James Audley began to set forward to his enemies, it fortuned to sir Eustace d'Aubrecicourt as ye shall hear after.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
For his shameful ende: fortuned for lacke of lore.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Alexander Barclay
I venture to think that Piracy has fortuned in this particular.
From Pirates by Claud Lovat Fraser
Vocabulary lists containing fortune
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