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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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What’s an A&M success story you took particular pride in?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

The lone success story in recent years has been Ford’s Maverick four-door pickup, introduced in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

This film is the latest chapter in an unlikely success story that began not in Hollywood, but on the reading platform Wattpad, where the Argentine-born Spanish writer Ron first published the Culpables trilogy.

From BBC Jun. 17, 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

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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