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Recent Examples of fortuity
But after a while, realizing that in-person services remained a long way off, the group resumed meeting online, playing recordings of communal singing to which members could add their voices and sharing songs in advance to compensate for the loss of fortuity.
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Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2020
Uncovering a Speedster with a little over 13,000 miles on the odometer in an estate sale is automotive fortuity.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2021
Billy was born in 1910 in a Lower East Side tenement and raised as a teenager in Bayside, Queens, in what seemed like an age of infinite fortuity.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2020
Uncovering a Speedster with a little over 13,000 miles on the odometer in an estate sale is automotive fortuity.
—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2021
Billy was born in 1910 in a Lower East Side tenement and raised as a teenager in Bayside, Queens, in what seemed like an age of infinite fortuity.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fortuity
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Hamas accused Israel of violating the truce with the delay, casting some uncertainty over the precarious ceasefire deal, and said talks on a second phase would not be possible until they are freed.—
Eugenia Yosef,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
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This comes at a time of extreme uncertainty for the agency.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Cook and Mertz’s results have galvanized interest in catalytic computing, with new works exploring connections to randomness (opens a new tab) and the effects of allowing a few (opens a new tab) mistakes (opens a new tab) in resetting the full memory to its original state.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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The new approach combines a little knowledge of the bookshelf’s past contents with the surprising power of randomness.—
Steve Nadis,
WIRED,
16 Feb. 2025
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The Nets did follow up that accident by becoming the first team all season to fail to score 100 points against the Washington Wizards.—
Law Murray,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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There have been multiple other aviation accidents in recent weeks.—
Sopan Deb,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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Courtesy of Games for Change Anima plans to release Take Us North in late 2026 or early 2027, at which point the circumstances migrants face could be even more stark than the ones they’re confronted with now.—
Megan Farokhmanesh,
WIRED,
5 Mar. 2025
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The circumstances that led to the shooting are still unknown, but investigators believe there was an altercation between the two.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
5 Mar. 2025
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The discovery was a stroke of geological luck; Zhurong's beach would probably have eroded away into something unrecognizable over the last 3.5 billion years if it hadn't been buried beneath those 33 feet of rocky, dusty debris from asteroid impacts, volcanoes and dust storms.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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The manager said the bank that approved the loan had tried contacting the woman for about two months without any luck.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
24 Feb. 2025
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Dorit plays the entire scene perfectly, whether by strategy or happenstance.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2025
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Yet in my experience, growth doesn’t come by luck or happenstance.—
Dr. Eric George,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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These images can pinpoint the locations of people stranded after a disaster or assess damages in hard-to-reach areas like rooftops, steep slopes, and hazard zones.—
Ryan Lanclos,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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San José State volleyball player Brooke Slusser joined the lawsuit, alleging that the inclusion of her transgender teammate in Mountain West matches posed an unfair advantage and safety hazards, the LA Times reported.—
Kate Murphy,
Axios,
5 Mar. 2025
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Taiwan will need to triple or quadruple its arsenal of antiship missiles to have a chance at disabling a significant number of the vessels China would use to move its forces onto Taiwan’s shores.—
Jennifer Kavanagh,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Given that $$$4U was immediately positioned as Drake’s primary vehicle to regain his cultural and commercial footing post-beef, the album never really had a chance to exist as a sincere moment of collaboration.—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Fortuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortuity. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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