fortune
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Buying a stake in Liverpool gives the 62-year-old a slice of one of the most iconic global sports brands for a small fraction of his fortune.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But maybe you have a legacy plan or some other purpose for your fortune and want to preserve what you have now.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Bezos, 62, is one of the world's richest men, with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at more than $280 billion, while Saverin's wealth is put at $33 billion.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
In the main lounge, cats like Fruitcake and Seer’s lookalike kitten brother, Oracle, surrounded us as we created paper fortune tellers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Lately she slept until after I left for the mines, but I was so excited, I wanted to wake her and show her our fortune.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Their family fortunes shifted when his older brothers got jobs—one joined the Indian Navy and another the army.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Martin’s fantasy world of Westeros in “House of the Dragon” is a particularly cruel place to be sensitive, whether to the declining fortunes of a kingdom or the machinations of the spirit world.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Despite the demands of the summer tour, it was a culture-building exercise for Alonso as he looks to help lift Chelsea's fortunes after their problems last season.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
A financial loophole previously allowed China’s tech elite to list their companies in Hong Kong or elsewhere and mint fortunes offshore beyond the reach of Chinese authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
My eyes lingered longingly over the promise to reveal our fortunes.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
As for the king, when things fortuned thus, he was completely bewildered, and plainly showed his sore vexation and tumult of soul.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus
And it fortuned them to mete the husbande of the said gentyll woman and desyred hym of his iudgment, shewynge hym all the hole mater.
From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by William Carew Hazlitt
I venture to think that Piracy has fortuned in this particular.
From Pirates by Claud Lovat Fraser
Vocabulary lists containing fortune
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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