apposite

Example Sentences

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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

Given that our country has had roughly 600,000 pandemic deaths, I wonder whether “etiquette” is the most apposite term here.

From New York Times

The words “servitude” and “dominion” are apposite in takings clause jurisprudence.

From Washington Post