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make a fortune

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  1. Also, make a small fortune. Earn a great deal of money, as in He made a fortune on the stock market. Similar expressions are, as in Now that their parents have died, they're worth a small fortune. Make a fortune dates from about 1700, and its use with small from the second half of the 1800s.


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Some people are going to make a fortune in the future using AI to pick stocks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Kroenke went on to make a fortune in real estate and marry Ann Walton, a Walmart heiress, before diving into sports.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

"Businesses are going to make a fortune, and that's why you cannot continue to have a payroll tax system that taxes jobs and then subsidizes automation," the governor said in a statement.

From Barron's May 21, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2025

As a young man Norwood had traveled to Bermuda with a diving bell modeled on Halley’s device, intending to make a fortune scooping pearls from the seabed.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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