apposite

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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

On guitar, she played a mash-up of A Place In This World, from her debut album, and 1989's New Romantics, with the apposite lyric: "Heartbreak is the national anthem / We sing it proudly."

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024

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

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 • Apr. 6, 2023

If we must bring together things which have really no relation to each other, it would be more apposite to compare the paradise of the Hebrews.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max