fortuitousness

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Noun
  • Adding to the uncertainty, Congress allowed Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire last year, which caused insurance premiums to spike for millions more people.
    Tamar Hallerman, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
  • This work of checking in on team members or translating ambiguity, especially during periods of uncertainty, has been dubbed the empathy or care tax.
    Holly Corbett, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Residents say the repeat offenders make the neighborhood unsafe given the randomness of their attacks.
    Sabrina Franza, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • Validated quality Modern cybersecurity lives or dies by true randomness.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Eiglarsh added that while the suffering of the families was evident throughout the trial, the defense successfully argued that the crash was a tragic accident.
    Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • Was fatal boat crash just an accident — or was Pino reckless?
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Plantation Police detectives are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the child's death.
    Anna McAllister, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Officials did not provide additional details about the circumstances surrounding Ortiz Canseco's disappearance.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The group of death in the 2002 World Cup qualifiers wasn’t enough, because in Egypt’s next attempt to reach the finals in 2006, their luck put them in a group with Didier Drogba’s Ivory Coast and Samuel Eto’o’s Cameroon.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • In retrospect, the result looks less like luck than like a compounding advantage.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Under federal rules, if a complaint about an infant formula — such as a report of an adverse event — shows a possible health hazard, the company must investigate.
    David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Climbing the tower while it is powered up and transmitting poses particular hazards.
    Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Up to this point, Ruthye has begged Supergirl to help her exact revenge on Krem, which the heroine has refused, so the alignment of their goals ends up a convenient happenstance.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • And June 14, which by happenstance is my birthday.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
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“Fortuitousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortuitousness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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