How to pronounce fortunate
Listen to fortunate in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“fortunate” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 576 American · 625 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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- We were fortunate, right.
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 70:47 · hear it here
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less fortunate than yourselves.
UK Parliament · watch from 70:24 · hear it here
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with me, and I was fortunate enough, fortunate enough to come to this city
Dept of Justice · watch from 42:40 · hear it here
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>> We've been very fortunate.
GAO · watch from 0:59 · hear it here
Why real speech
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