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
“Avoiding recommendations because there’s no perfectly apposite data is a cop-out,” he added.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
The late negotiations at Washington have furnished an apposite illustration of the truth of the author’s remarks.
From The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery by Travers Twiss
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