success story
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- noun
- /səkˈsɛs ˈstɔri/
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historia de éxito
- The story of the company's rise from bankruptcy to industry leader is a remarkable success story.
- share a success story
- present a success story
- emphasize success stories
This is the single great success story of Social Shop.
- This is the single great success story of Social Shop.
- Not one single success story that I studied was a Lone Ranger.
- So please submit your success story to us today.
- Every overnight success story is years in the making.
- What an absolute success story that is, is for a leader and a woman.
- So there are some success stories, but they're not as many as one would like.
- It's not necessarily a success story and it's not a step by step how to.
- What sort of success stories have you seen with unwinding this and making it stick?
- But GB News became a big success story.
Examples
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You see, there isn't a single success story that doesn't include a lot of failure.
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Syndication has been our best success story so far.
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This is the single great success story of Social Shop.
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Today we find that we're having some success stories with early treatment.
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It's nice to hear an economic success story in these hard times.
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It's a great success story.
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In the case of Africa, fish and fish products account for many success stories.
Academic text (1994) -
The Green Revolution was one of the great success stories of the second half of the 20th century.
Academic text (2001) -
She's an African American success story.
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By many measures, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been an American corporate success story.
Academic text (2011)
How Inspiring
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an account of outstanding success' is directly compositional from 'success' (achieved result) + 'story' (a narrative), so the combined sense is predictable from the constituents. This noun-noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern and is not idiomatic or metaphorical, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Success story comes from the simple image of a short tale about someone who starts small and later reaches great success. Because we picture that clear story as an example to follow, success story now means an account that shows how a person or project 'became successful'.