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fortune
  1. Destiny, especially favorable.
  2. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
  3. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
  4. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
  5. Good luck.
  6. One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
  7. A large amount of money.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Carnegie made his fortune in steel while Frick was the coal entrepreneur who complemented Carnegie.”
      “For example, it costs a small fortune just for the extension cords.”
      “She wondered whether it was her fortune in life to be a grand courtesan.”
fortuity
  1. (uncountable) The state of being fortuitous.
  2. (countable) A fortuitous event; an accident.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Success does not always involve luck, fortuity, or assistance from invisible but ever-present forces.”
      “These various proactive activities illustrate the agentic management of fortuity.”
      “The meeting of Baryshnikov and Judson was, it seems, a fortuity waiting to happen.”
unfortunateness
fortunateness
fortuitousness
  1. The quality of being fortuitous
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Attributing his career path to fortuitousness is how he deflects the spotlight from his own notable achievement.”
      “Such a thinking never lets itself become a doctrine and withdraws totally from the fortuitousness of common opinion.”
      “The flaw in the contingency argument is to equate fortuitousness with improbability.”
unfortunate
unfortune
  1. (obsolete) misfortune
fortunatenesses
unfortunates
  1. plural of unfortunate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The beast subsisted on a diet of swamp things, but was known to occasionally snack on wayward lumberjacks and other unfortunates.”
      “Allow me to explain Fayer's evil plan to you poor unfortunates who have to suffer through his company with me.”
      “I would like to know therefore why she hates and despises these unfortunates so vehemently.”
unfortunes
  1. plural of unfortune
fortuities
  1. plural of fortuity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I have a particular interest in the economic relationship with China partly due to the fortuities of history.”
      “Yet I also know that, for my own peace of mind, I can't keep relying on such stunning fortuities.”
      “Through one of those fortuities that illumine the paths of even the dull-witted, I stumbled upon Henry George.”
fortunes
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