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Recent Examples of fortuity
But after a while, realizing that in-person services remained a long way off, the group resumed meeting online, playing recordings of communal singing to which members could add their voices and sharing songs in advance to compensate for the loss of fortuity.
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Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2020
Uncovering a Speedster with a little over 13,000 miles on the odometer in an estate sale is automotive fortuity.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2021
Billy was born in 1910 in a Lower East Side tenement and raised as a teenager in Bayside, Queens, in what seemed like an age of infinite fortuity.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2020
Uncovering a Speedster with a little over 13,000 miles on the odometer in an estate sale is automotive fortuity.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2021
Billy was born in 1910 in a Lower East Side tenement and raised as a teenager in Bayside, Queens, in what seemed like an age of infinite fortuity.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fortuity
Noun
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Even before the tariffs announcement on Wednesday, the stock market and consumer confidence have dipped over the uncertainty.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Apr. 2025
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As of Thursday at 3 pm Eastern, RH stock had fallen nearly 40%, rattled by the uncertainty of Trump’s tariffs and last year’s poor performance.—
Julie Goldenberg,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Complete randomness would be a 9.2 quintillion chance of picking the perfect NCAA bracket.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Mar. 2025
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This randomness prevents attackers from mapping the system, as their efforts quickly become obsolete due to frequent changes. 4.—
Amarandhar Kotha,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Adam DeVine was told to 'stick to the script' on Modern Family after confusing Sofia Vergara with improv DeVine detailed his childhood accident to Entertainment Weekly in 2016.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The number of hourly arrivals was reduced to 26 after the January collision when some runways were closed for the investigation, but they have since been increased to 30 – still fewer than the 32 arrivals per hour allowed before the January accident.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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Although Obama’s circumstances as wife to a president are certainly extraordinary, her comments immediately resonated with women across the country because of their universality.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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Melodrama gets a bad rap for being too exaggerated, and over-the-top but outrageous circumstances beget heightened emotions.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
9 Apr. 2025
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In a state with a significant shortage of primary care providers, that meant many low-income residents who use Planned Parenthood for their health care would be out of luck.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2025
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Such as participating in games that required social skills mixed in with ingenuity, sprinkled with a dose of luck.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
1 Apr. 2025
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For some hoops fans, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament is about school spirit, shocking upsets, Cinderella runs, the office bracket contest, mid-majors with funny mascots or a myriad of other happenstances that make March Madness popular.—
Rohan Nadkarni,
NBC News,
18 Mar. 2025
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Benson’s approach is more about serendipity than happenstance.—
Lilian Raji,
Forbes,
15 Dec. 2024
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Yet at least one in three Americans lives in a place where the air is still a health hazard.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2025
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Its signature hazard is the 60-feet-long bunker placed in the middle of the fairway, about 100 yards from the green.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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As with tattoos, there's a chance that microneedling could trigger new psoriasis lesions through the Koebner phenomenon.—
Sarah Bence, OTR/L,
Verywell Health,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Wisconsin and Florida votes were the first big electoral test for Republicans since President Trump assumed office on January 20 and made radical chances to U.S. policy regarding international trade, immigration and federal employment.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Fortuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortuity. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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