fortunes

noun

plural of fortune
1
as in futures
what is going to happen to someone in the time ahead the telephone psychic proceeded to tell me my fortune—at great length

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2
as in destinies
a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand it was his fortune that he should wander in the wilderness before becoming king

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Recent Examples of fortunes Nemacolin is privately owned and operated by the Hardy family, Pennsylvania natives who made their name and fortunes in the lumber industry. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman reiterated his vow to spend as necessary with hopes to turn around the club’s fortunes. — Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2026 Wall Street’s fortunes have also been aided by a business-friendly administration in the White House, DiNapoli said. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026 How will the fate of Oracle’s bets of AI affect Skydance’s fortunes? — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2026 Now CPUs are back, lifting the fortunes of market leaders AMD and Intel, whose chips specialize in powering long-running agents that can work for hours on their own. — Kif Leswing,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026 The path to Democratic control of the Senate is widening as the party’s fortunes improve in five reliably Republican states, according to new polls from The New York Times and Siena University. — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2026 During the first—the term was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner to describe the rise of industrial fortunes after the Civil War—the country had, by modern standards, a very small national government and very low taxes. — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 Volkswagen has long been unusually exposed to China’s fortunes. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
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  1. futures
  2. destinies
  3. circumstances
  4. fates
Noun
  • Traders in fed funds futures curtailed bets on a Fed rate hike, per CME Fedwatch, and the 10-year Treasury yield slid about 6 basis points after nearing its highest level since 2002.
    — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • How single-stock futures and futures margin work Single-stock futures function in similar ways to long-standing standardized futures based on crude oil, gold, or soybeans.
    — Bruce Blythe, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of futures
Noun
  • Noir, by contrast, brooks no such substitutions, because its conception of authenticity cannot allow for alternative destinies.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • People looking out for themselves have compromised the fates of those who have less control over their destinies.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of destinies
Noun
  • In the film, Frances is guided by her sense of morals in the face of really impossible circumstances.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
  • That allows manufacturers to identify measures suited to their circumstances, rather than follow a universal sequence of upgrades.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of circumstances
Noun
  • The Kunstmuseum Basel will receive $120,000 to examine 336 drawings in its collection with provenances previously flagged as problematic, as well as the fates of the drawings’ sellers and the museum’s collection strategies between 1933 and 1945.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • From what we’ve been told, the duo were blindsided and upset to learn about their fates from Thursday night’s reports without ever receiving a phone call from Skydance co-CEO David Ellison.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of fates

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“Fortunes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortunes. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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