apt

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Given its deep ties with the trend-setting US basketball and American football leagues, the NBA and NFL, it feels apt streetwear styles are included in this year's North American World Cup kit collections.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

A bear market takes its name from the way a bear attacks, swiping its paws downward, an apt image for falling prices.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Perhaps a more apt quote comes from T.S Eliot: In my beginning is my end.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

If you admired a cushion or a book in her apartment, she was apt to insist you accept it as a gift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The metaphor was apt, up to a point: this point.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis