apposite
Example Sentences
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Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025
"Deterrence is particularly apposite in this case given the current state of affairs in Sudan," she said.
From BBC • Dec. 9, 2025
Depression had not previously been the subject of comedy, but it seemed appropriately apposite to a year of national self-celebration.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023
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 • Sep. 15, 2022
The transposition is complete, and the allusion most apposite.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
