reversal of fortune

collocation in English

meaningsofreversalandfortune

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reversal
noun[C]
uk
/rɪˈvɜː.səl/us
/rɪˈvɝː.səl/
the act of changing or making something change to ...
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fortune
noun
uk
/ˈfɔː.tʃuːn/us
/ˈfɔːr.tʃuːn/
a large amount of money, goods, ...
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(Definition ofreversalandfortunefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Areversaloffortunecame two years later by a more conventional path.
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The precipitous drop in commodity prices and aid in the 1980s generated the scholarly response that areversaloffortune, so to speak, should engender a reversal in politics.
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What caused the suddenreversaloffortuneall in a day?
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This fundamentalreversaloffortunewas occasioned simply by the fact that the public transport facilities were being used more nearly to the capacity for which they were designed.
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Other days brought dramatic defeats, and terrible casualties, but never without the possibility of areversaloffortune.
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Among the leadership it was recognized as a completereversaloffortune.
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Then, in the early 1970s, rehabilitation suffered a precipitousreversaloffortune.
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The early 1990s saw areversaloffortunefor the school.
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The reason for thisreversaloffortuneis harder to specify.
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Reversaloffortunemade it necessary for him to give up his business, leaving him with the dilemma of how to support his large family.
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This precipitousreversaloffortunesignaled the club's protracted nadir, as it cast a shadow on both the team's previous standing and their new captain's destiny.
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Should the cities band together and retaliate, a neighbouring state intervene or should the chieftain suffer areversaloffortune, allies would fall away or inter-tribal feuding would return.
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With a lamenting voice, they tell a story full of painful, sudden reversals of fortune, and if one didn't interrupt them, it would seem that their story would never end.
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The reversals of fortune and difficulties suffered in past naval defeats provided invaluable acquired experience.
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