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opportunities
noun as in lucky chance; favorable circumstances
Strong matches
break, connection, contingency, cut, fitness, fling, fortuity, go, happening, hour, juncture, leisure, liberty, occasion, opening, pass, prayer, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot, show, spell, squeak, stab, turn, whack
Weak matches
befalling, fair shake, fighting chance, good fortune, good luck, iron in the fire, one's move, one's say, one's turn, the hunt, the running
Example Sentences
What is most troubling is our – and I do mean “our” and not “their” – never treating these situations as learning opportunities.
Yet Texas does not foreclose professional opportunities for him.
Some of the most explosive opportunities could be based around things that the Western world seems reluctant to adopt.
Other human practices, like the hunting and consumption of wild animals for food, provide other opportunities for spillover.
What new legislative attacks on the basic rights and opportunities of women might they put on the table?
Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.
The good which came to him, directly and indirectly, from these opportunities can hardly be overstated.
All she needed was a certain amount of his society, opportunities to work for him, the assurance of his success and happiness.
In this way he was often able to discover opportunities for doing much good to his subjects.
My own opportunities have been very limited, yet so far as they go they tend to maintain the justice of this remark.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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