Noun He hoped to achieve fame and fortune. They had the good fortune to escape injury when their car crashed. The book follows the fortunes of two families through the years.
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Sullivan and her husband, a lawyer turned businessman who’d made a fortune in the telecom merger rush of the late 1990s, set out to find a good oncologist fast. Alicia Mundy, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022 Bethenny Frankel, the former Real Housewives of New York City star who made a fortune off of her Skinnygirl cocktail brand, just took a stance against excessive editing of social media photos for promoting unrealistic body images. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2022 There’s also the individual — a man who made a fortune from his frenzied toe-tapping and whose feet were famously once insured for $57.6 million — at the helm. Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Aug. 2022 Uruguayan fashion mogul Enrique Manhard, who made a fortune with a chain of clothing stores, and his partners have bought 27 lots in Miami since 2017, property records show. Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022 There’s no question that Trump has made a fortune on the place. Dan Alexander, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 It was built in 1998 for Steven Udvar-Hazy, a Hungarian billionaire who made a fortune in the airplane leasing industry. Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022 Rinke, whose family made a fortune selling GM and Toyota cars, was expected to outspend the other four Republican candidates after pouring about $10 million of his own money into the campaign. Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2022 Robson, whose husband made a fortune in developing retirement resort communities, has lent her campaign $13 million. Musadiq Bidar, CBS News, 22 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun and Verb
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin fortuna; akin to Latin fort-, fors chance, luck, and perhaps to ferre to carry — more at bear