fortuitousness

Definition of fortuitousnessnext

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Noun
  • Market participants seem to be staying on the sidelines amid the uncertainty.
    Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The billions of dollars that Haitians send home, the IMF said, have helped the government’s Central Bank reserves, while offsetting the high fuel prices despite the uncertainty surrounding the potential termination of Haitians’ Temporary Protected Status in the United States.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But given injuries and the general randomness of middle relief, the Tigers’ approach makes sense.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 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
  • 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.
    Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2020
Noun
  • The explosion of a fuel truck at the base of a bridge over the Panama Canal has left one person dead and prompted Panamanian authorities to close the span while firefighters investigate the accident and engineers assess the damage.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Tiger Woods is absent from the Masters following a March car accident and DUI charge, stepping away to seek treatment for painkiller addiction.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Two people died last week in similar circumstances off the coast north of Calais.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Given these circumstances, most of the music written for mandolin (eighty-five volumes were published in Paris between 1761 and 1783) was intended for amateurs, often women.
    Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In recent months, Enrique Torres, an undergraduate student at the University of Mount Olive in North Carolina, has submitted about two dozen applications for an internship, with no luck.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 6 Apr. 2026
  • With better injury luck and tweaks on defense, a return to form next season is a good bet.
    Greg Cote April 6, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The funds will be used to make Americans with Disabilities Act improvements on roads and walkways, such as tactile paving surfaces designed to alert the visually impaired about hazards such as road crossings and drop-offs.
    Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • None of the approvals made this week includes hazard mitigation funding, a once-typical add on to disaster declaration support that helped communities build back with more resilience.
    Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The fact that the trades came so close to Trump’s announcement may have been mere happenstance, Khouw pointed out.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Time will tell if the mid-major is really extinct or if these last two years were a random happenstance in a college landscape that continues to radically shift.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Fortuitousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortuitousness. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.

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