fortuity

He has managed those so far - but he would not have anticipated reaching the semi-finals with such a heavy reliance on fortuity.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

Illinois turned once more to its ground game — with a dash of fortuity reminiscent of the Oakland Raiders’ infamous ‘Holy Roller’ play — to take its only lead of the game.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 18, 2021

In short, the scope of 1001 would be limited by the fortuity of the paperwork flow of the investigative agency.

From Slate ● May 7, 2020

“The only salient difference here: the fortuity that the bullet happened to strike Hernández on the Mexican side of the embankment,” Justice Ginsburg wrote.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020

Yet it may not exceed the premises to say that the particular choice, the concrete incidence, of this national attachment is in any given case a matter of sophistication, largely tempered with fortuity.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen

It was a midtempo ballad about a string of fortuities — a sudden rain shower, a stoplight avoided, a left turn taken — that led to a couple’s meeting in a bar.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2013

Just before a Senate adjournment: The moving finger writes, and the fortuities of politics will probably result in change of some faces when we return in January .

From Time Magazine Archive

John Franklin Enders, 63, got interested in the viruses of polio and measles as the result of a series of fortunate fortuities.

From Time Magazine Archive

For that state,—that command—depends on that which 'changes,'— fortuities, impressions, nay, it has the principle of revolution within it.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon

His real reason was that he wished to stop at Lower Merritt and experience whatever fortuities might happen to him from doing so.

From A Pair of Patient Lovers by William Dean Howells