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"text": "It is a fortunate sign if the sun shines on a newly wedded couple.",
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"ref": "1854, Edward Stanley, A Familiar History of Birds : Their Nature, Habits and Instincts, page 144:",
"text": "if it sits still, with its breast towards them, till they have passed, they consider it as a fortunate sign, and everything is expected to go on well during the remainder of their journey",
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"text": "Patrick was the unlikely match-winner as Berkeley earned a fortunate victory over Chisolm.",
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"ref": "2011, George G. Szpiro, Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation:",
"text": "How many lucky winners, Regnault lamented, boastfully ascribe their success to wise decisions while in reality their triumph was nothing more than the fortunate outcome of random events?",
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"ref": "2018 July 11, “How Nina Weiner turns dreams into a reality”, in The Jerusalem Post:",
"text": "Weiner acknowledges that a stroke of good luck has helped steer her to a more fortunate path early on in life.",
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"code": "ase",
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"sense": "coming by good luck or favorable chance",
"word": "късметли́йски"
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"word": "𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃"
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"word": "fortunoza"
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"sense": "coming by good luck or favorable chance",
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"text": "We were fortunate not to be fined for speeding.",
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"text": "This is a time when we think of those less fortunate than ourselves.",
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"note": "Open8@Chin-PalmBack Open8@NearSideChinhigh-PalmForward",
"sense": "lucky, favored by fortune"
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"sense": "lucky, favored by fortune",
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"sense": "lucky, favored by fortune",
"word": "નસીબદાર"
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"sense": "lucky, favored by fortune",
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