fortune
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Emails show that in 2006, MeritServus acknowledged that the fortune was owned by Electus Cyprus.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Adjusted for inflation, his fortune would be worth $30.4 billion today.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Many of the nation’s largest retailers are struggling through similar automation transitions as pressure grows to boost sales and ship merchandise to homes faster without spending a fortune on additional workers or facilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Westons were ranked fifth on this year's Sunday Times Rich List with a combined fortune of almost £19bn.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Before Mal could snatch her hand away, the fortune teller had seized it.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
"Love it, hate it, or fear it, AI is here, rapidly becoming a key driver of countries' relative fortunes in the world economy," said Georgieva last week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
The industrialists of the 19th and 20th centuries made their fortunes on new markets like oil, steel and railroads.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
In his two-decade career, Deol’s fortunes have ebbed and flowed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Three years later, Kane and Abel, a ripping page-turner about the roller-coaster financial fortunes of two men who initially shared nothing but a date of birth, flew off the shelves.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
He bade me sit, which I did, and we again expressed our mutual pleasure at our reunion, following which he asked after my fortunes, inquiring how long I had been at Norfolk.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
It fortuned after on a day that he gave battle to the same king of Egypt, wherein he was grievously wounded; nevertheless, he obtained the victory, notwithstanding he had his deadly wound.
From Mediaeval Tales by Henry Morley
But that fortuned that it might appear, that they were not of us.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
And it fortuned after iij. days, they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and posing them.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
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