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Good Charlotte’s return is propitiously timed given the broader emo and pop-punk revival that’s ushered other turn-of-the-millennium acts like Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance into stadiums over the past few years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2025

He mostly taught about the separation of powers, but recently, and perhaps propitiously, he turned his attention to the Supreme Court.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2018

The year started propitiously for him, as Cuban-backed Sandinista guerrillas overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, but it ended in ignominy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2016

In this, he was helped by his protégé, the propitiously named Wynkyn de Worde, whose fonts were imitated throughout Europe.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2010

On the right of the Christian line things had not been going so propitiously for them.

From Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean by E. Hamilton Currey


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