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They are speeding up trading on financial markets, making and losing fortunes in micro-seconds.

Patrick Howell O’Neill profiles Israeli spyware company NSO, which has quietly built up its fortune by helping governments around the world snoop on people.

Today’s cannabis industry is a constantly shifting landscape of legal developments, policy changes, company fortunes, and product innovations.

From Quartz

Unlike other rich women of her time, Scripps worked for her fortune instead of marrying or inheriting it, McClain said.

Backlinks are one way to get this boost without spending a fortune.

The building used to be an all-girls school, and when it was initially purchased by Fortune it was dilapidated.

Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.

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.

“I suppose she'll want a fortune as well,” he says, looking at me as if I were Liv Ullmann's agent.

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

The fortune was proving quite as large as he had expected, and not even an inquest had been held upon the dead man.

But "the cards never forgive," and as a rule Dame Fortune is relentless to the reckless player.

Aristide always regarded the fortune of the moment as if it would last forever.

The fact that her fortune was vaguely threatened did not cause her anxiety: she scarcely realized it.

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On this page you'll find 117 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fortune, such as: affluence, capital, estate, inheritance, opulence, and portion.

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

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