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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
Noun
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Even with all of this uncertainty, AI offers hope — a new blueprint and an opportunity to reimagine and reconstruct the very foundations of content creation.—
Solo Ceesay,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
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Farther north, Friends of Acadia — the philanthropic partner of Acadia National Park in Maine — says job cuts and hiring delays have added new layers of uncertainty to the park's summer plans.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
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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Only two new plants have been started since that accident.—
David Pogue,
CBS News,
9 Mar. 2025
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Amid it all, Mickey perishes over and over, until an accident causes two Mickeys to be alive at once.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
7 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 Blues did eventually miss the playoffs by one point, and Stastny could’ve made the difference, but the circumstances are not completely alike.—
Jeremy Rutherford,
The Athletic,
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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At 6:13 of the period, the Blue Jackets went to the power play with a chance to push the lead to 4-1.—
Aaron Portzline,
The Athletic,
10 Mar. 2025
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The pandemic gave many people more time at home and a chance to rethink their relationship to work.—
Aatish Bhatia,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Fortuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortuity. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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