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make a fortune

verb as in line one's pockets

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verb as in succeed

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U.S. businessmen came to the country to make a fortune on the selloff of state assets, while Western politicians lectured a nascent Russia about human rights and democracy.

They were correctly betting that the winners would make a fortune.

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What has emerged is the hope that anyone, with the right product and a little bit of luck, can make a fortune in K-beauty.

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Posing as an aristocratic novelist, she saw an opportunity to make a fortune - by convincing 1,000 islanders to relocate to a patch of Australian swamp.

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He invoked a past prosperity, but his actual plans are to make a fortune by swindling the rest of us.

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