fortune
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King Charles III sent his "most heartfelt condolences", while King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden remembered "a good friend to me, my family and to Sweden", and wished his godson Haakon "success and good fortune".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Might put some animators out of work, but if I had to pay the rate for animators on something like that, it would take a year to do and cost me a fortune.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
While country music and films brought her fame, her entrepreneurial zeal brought her fortune.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
After studying at Harvard and Oxford, Mark Carney made his fortune as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York, London, Tokyo and Toronto.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
“The very first day, we said, ‘There’s going to come a time when we’re going to make a fortune shorting this stuff.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
The heirs to one of America’s biggest liquor fortunes are in the middle of an intense family drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
But his fortunes faded amid a dying market for syndicated TV and clashes with a distributor and partner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
But fortunes reversed in 2020, when new regulations from Beijing seeking to limit excessive borrowing in the real estate sector complicated Evergrande's ability to make payments.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Albon had been considering his future after a slump in Williams' fortunes this season, which followed a surprise fifth-place finish in the championship in 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
I didn’t think too much of fate or fortunes, but a dried-up spring sure didn’t seem like a great start.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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 that the devil was already come to the place where he had appointed the appointment, and in his hand he had the booke aforesaid.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
For his shameful ende: fortuned for lacke of lore.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Alexander Barclay
But that fortuned that it might appear, that they were not of us.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 7
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