apposite

Example Sentences

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The play ends with Alvita and her husbands singing along to Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman,” which is both apposite and wrong.

From New York Times

Many of the people at these crowds — the “beautiful ‘boaters,’” as Trump so appositely calls them — are quite prosperous, yet they live in the least-prosperous areas, the exurbs and the small towns of flyover states.

From Washington Post

Overnight, we heard the British national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” updated to reflect the kingdom’s new reality, its apposite monarch tweaked in the title, its pronouns abruptly swung back to the masculine.

From Washington Post

“Avoiding recommendations because there’s no perfectly apposite data is a cop-out,” he added.

From New York Times

This occupies educational space at the expense of such disciplines — the term is apposite — as history and mathematics, with their exacting chronologies and sequential mastery of increasingly complex material.

From Washington Post