make a fortune
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"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
It goes the other way, too: U.S. companies make a fortune selling software, financial products and oil across the Atlantic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
They were correctly betting that the winners would make a fortune.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 31, 2025
"A couple of times he'd said to me, 'You should do it, you'd make a fortune, but you don't have to if you don't want to do it. I make enough money,'" Sophie says.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2023
Dad left the air force after he got married because he wanted to make a fortune for his family, and you couldn’t do that in the military.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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