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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
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The Energy Department on Monday approved the release of nearly $57 million from the loan, a sign that the Trump administration supports the project amid the turmoil and uncertainty in Washington over federal funding for projects started under the Biden administration.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2025
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It’s filled with moments of uncertainty, mid-sentence realizations and mental sticky notes.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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Patients who use cutting-edge technologies like PGT-A have to grapple with both realities, confronting both the randomness of reproduction and the fact that research on add-on tests like PGT-A is happening simultaneously to the tests being offered.—
Jamie Ducharme,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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But Wrigley was such an extreme pitcher’s park last year — something that appeared to be more about randomness and the wind blowing in at an extreme rate than a real trend — that Busch was just one of many Cubs to suffer at home.—
Sahadev Sharma,
The Athletic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Connected sensors track environmental hazards, which secure rapid response to prevent accidents.—
Oleg Fonarov,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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The golden retriever didn't chew up anything during puppyhood and had no recurring accidents.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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If a person is arrested in violation of the settlement agreement, they must in most circumstances be released from detention without having to pay bond and without conditions of release, according to Rebecca Glenberg, chief supervising litigation counsel at the ACLU of Illinois.—
Laura Rodríguez Presa,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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That idea—of a grand continuum, in which the circumstances change but all of our big human feelings (heartache, joy, unease, panic, contentment) remain the same, across time and vast distances—felt germane to her new songs.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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However, their luck ran out in the following two games, where the Reds lost twice in a row to PSG in the last-16 second-leg and then Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final – the latter held them without a shot for an entire half.—
Brett Koremenos,
The Athletic,
21 Mar. 2025
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Two Georgia lottery players tried their luck — and walked away with life-changing wins.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
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And one benefit of a plot built on relentlessly surreal happenstance is that eventually every new plot development starts to feel like a twist — because nothing is predetermined, and rationality and rigor have already gone out the window.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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Dorit plays the entire scene perfectly, whether by strategy or happenstance.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2025
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In the fourth category, students’ metaphors highlighted the potential hazards of AI.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
18 Mar. 2025
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Tornadoes are most likely from March through mid-June, after which damaging wind gusts become the main hazard.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
18 Mar. 2025
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In the ’90s, a movie like this one might have had a chance to catch on.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
22 Mar. 2025
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Don’t expect a speedy renewal of David Blaine: Do Not Attempt – at least until the title star has a chance to fully recover.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Fortuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortuity. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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