success story
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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It’s the slow-motion success story that made L.A.’s air not immaculate, but at least livable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
While Um, the California financial planner, had a personal-loan success story with one client, it didn’t work out so well for another.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
Bangladesh was long hailed as a development success story, boasting per capita income higher than India’s and notching gains in life expectancy and female literacy—driven, in part, by its rise as a low-cost garment exporter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
In that sense, the storm was a success story.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
A society, almost necessarily, begins every success story with the chapter that most advantages itself, and in America, these precipitating chapters are almost always rendered as the singular action of exceptional individuals.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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