providential
Example Sentences
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Mr. Dreisbach notes the powerful importance of the Exodus story of providential liberation and deliverance as the model for Americans’ rebellion against Britain’s pharaonic royalty.
“Over the last few days, many people have said it was a providential moment.”
From BBC
"Many people say it was a providential moment. It probably was."
From BBC
He calls his two decades on Capitol Hill a “providential” appointment, but says his long tenure was unanticipated.
From Washington Times
The show had perhaps been conceived “in a completely different setting, with a different message,” she said, according to a news release, but it was “all the more providential to open this exhibition today.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
