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success story

American  

noun

  1. an account of the achievement of success, fortune, or fame by someone or some enterprise.


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“We all think of Amazon as a great success story at this point,” Franklin said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

It’s also the kind of success story that theatergoing audiences love to champion, and that fairweather viewers find intriguing enough to check out themselves.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026

Nebius isn’t as well-known as its nearest competitor, CoreWeave, which became a success story early in the artificial-intelligence boom.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Which is partly why her Bollywood breakthrough felt larger than a routine success story.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

For a variety of reasons, both blacks and whites distorted the nature of this black success story and its significance to other African-Americans.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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