Fortuna
Americannoun
noun
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Justus Parmar, the CEO of Fortuna Investments, likens reusing rockets to a food-delivery driver keeping and refueling their car instead of scrapping it after dropping off dinner.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 17, 2025
Dr. Lisa Fortuna, a child psychologist and the report’s lead author, wrote that children and parents face “layered forms of trauma.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2025
I have my own olive oil; I have a Sicilian olive oil blend in partnership with Buona Fortuna in Sicily.
From Salon • Jan. 5, 2025
"We are always worried about disintegration," says Dewi Fortuna Anwar, an academic who has been adviser to one president and two vice-presidents.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2024
“Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,” Ignatius belched.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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