suitable time

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Given that landscape, “This may be the least suitable time to propose a new bureaucracy at NIH,” says Sally Satel, a medical policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right think tank.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 4, 2024

“I’m not in my element, and I’m sort of waiting for a suitable time to escape and just go hang out with Ali and just be in a dive bar.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2021

But Spinney says Sesame Street’s imminent 50-year anniversary also makes this feel like a suitable time to appear in his last episode.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2018

My impression has been that Abbas reached his retire-by date at least a decade ago, but that there's never been a suitable time to replace him, so he's been a "temporary" president for life.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2018

Meanwhile, Peter had thought of a suitable time when no one would be interested in either him or the book.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank