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fortuitously

ADJECTIVE
accidentally
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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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