fortuitously
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Surgeons Alan Goldman and Martin Elliott were among those searching for answers when they met in a break room at the hospital where, fortuitously, a Formula One race was on the television.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
A superb James McDonnell try had sent Leeds into the break 12-6 up, after Jonny Lomax's fortuitously created score for Saints had cancelled out Chris Hankinson's opener for the hosts.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2025
The wispy, glowing “engagement ring” wrapped around the cluster’s center is actually a set of amplified, warped and multiplied apparitions of a fortuitously aligned, far-distant background galaxy.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 11, 2023
Indeed, in 2022 California experienced its driest January, February, and March in over 100 years, following a fortuitously wet December.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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