fortune
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A vocal champion of the movement, Bankman-Fried said he went into finance to make a fortune he could give away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
There will be fortune tellers, dancing and aerial artistry and acrobatics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
It sounds like your family has an especially hurtful way of invalidating your very reasonable request to not spend a fortune on travel.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Amodei became an adviser to GiveWell and, later, a scientific adviser to the philanthropy it spun off with the fortune of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, which was then called Open Philanthropy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
They were invented by the famous fern expert Dr. Ward, who made a fortune selling what was admittedly a rather simple item.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Many of those fans had come from all corners of the world, and had spent or borrowed fortunes to make it, just to say: "I was there."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Pilots can earn fortunes in a single month, but are often dependent on one airline for their entire careers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Tax records show the nonprofit’s fortunes rose for a time after Konca launched it either in 2018 or 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
“The Cosby Show” represents massive, transformative success, not only to the sitcom genre itself and NBC’s prime-time fortunes, but in its capacity as a symbol of middle-class possibility.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
“They are backed by ancient fortunes, held in trust. Bribes get paid. Locations are changed when necessary.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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
But that fortuned that it might appear, that they were not of us.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days scarce ten amongst vs could either goe, or well stand, such extreame weaknes and moknes oppressed vs.
From Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
When sir James Audley began to set forward to his enemies, it fortuned to sir Eustace d'Aubrecicourt as ye shall hear after.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart; Thomas Malory; Raphael Holinshed
Vocabulary lists containing fortune
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