fortune
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With its jokes about the inner workings of Hollywood agents at CAA and the trappings of fame and fortune, “Gail Daughtry” could easily feel like inside baseball.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
He’s made a fortune, flies private, stays in fancy schmancy lairs, all the Lacoste he can wear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Or at least not spend a fortune sailing around and going nowhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
A mum's fight for a £12m fortune tops the Sun's front page, after a shopkeeper reportedly binned her winning lottery ticket.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Khedive Ismail spent a fortune building the Suez Canal and other projects.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Reviving the dimming fortunes of the state’s oil industry could bring big opportunities for ConocoPhillips, Repsol, Exxon Mobil, Shell and other companies to expand into the state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
For those whose fortunes rest on private businesses, it’s often based on suspect valuations by insiders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Deutsche Bahn has launched a modernisation drive, and is betting on a massive ramp-up in public spending on infrastructure to turn around its fortunes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
It is a remarkable turnaround in fortunes, partly inspired by the long-term commitment by the Moroccan FA.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
When other German factory owners took their profits and fled Kraków, intent on saving their lives and fortunes, Schindler increased his efforts to save his Jews.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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
And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
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 Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
For, being unfriend to Arthur and his court, Well wist he this grim Earl would bless that sport Of fortune which had fortuned him so well To have to starve his sovereign in a cell.—
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
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