as in uncertainty
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Recent Examples of fortuity
Uncovering a Speedster with a little over 13,000 miles on the odometer in an estate sale is automotive fortuity.
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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.
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Philissa Cramer,
sun-sentinel.com,
16 Sep. 2020
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.
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Sam Roberts,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2018
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
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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Adding to the uncertainty, Congress allowed Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire last year, which caused insurance premiums to spike for millions more people.
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This work of checking in on team members or translating ambiguity, especially during periods of uncertainty, has been dubbed the empathy or care tax.
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Residents say the repeat offenders make the neighborhood unsafe given the randomness of their attacks.
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Validated quality Modern cybersecurity lives or dies by true randomness.
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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.
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Was fatal boat crash just an accident — or was Pino reckless?
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Plantation Police detectives are now investigating the circumstances surrounding the child's death.
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Officials did not provide additional details about the circumstances surrounding Ortiz Canseco's disappearance.
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Perhaps the problem arose from the extravagant expectations of American life, the sense that bad luck will always be chased by good fortune and that the poor man is merely someone who has yet to strike it rich.
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Members gather on local piers to learn crabbing techniques, understand regulations and try their luck at bringing home fresh seafood.
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And June 14, which by happenstance is my birthday.
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And that's obviously not by happenstance.
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Its origin comes from the maritime profession of a harbor pilot – an expert with deep training and experience in local waters and their hazards, whose job is to go aboard large ships to navigate them safely in or out of a harbor.
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Travel at a safe speed and keep a lookout for other boats, swimmers, and hazards.
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For the best chance of seeing them, move away from city lights, lie flat on your back and look toward the southern sky near the Aquarius constellation, NASA says.
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Now’s your chance to grab a closet’s worth of sleek, sculpting essentials, like the SpanxShape Booty Boost leggings for $44 off, and the SpanxSmooth Jersey Crewneck T-Shirt for $30 off.
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“Fortuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortuity. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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