opportunely

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for opportunely
Adverb
  • Dry, seasonably warm weekend Drier weather will then move in on Thursday, although a few showers may be possible mainly in eastern Missouri.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The most seasonably warm temperatures this weekend will be over parts of the Mississippi Valley, where high temperatures will be in the 90s from the Deep South up to Minnesota and South Dakota.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Still, inmates were hastily transferred to other facilities.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Though Disney initially stayed on the sidelines as sportsbooks and broadcasters hastily paired up, PointsBet locked in NBC, William Hill walled off CBS, the Stars Group partnered with Fox and Penn National experimented with Barstool.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Ed is left alone on the farm after impulsively killing that brother (whose actual death might have been accidental) for breaking up the family unit and, the next year, losing Augusta to complications from a stroke.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Despite all that’s at stake, the project came together impulsively.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • After clamping down on the demonstrations, Chinese authorities abruptly ended all pandemic control operations.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Officers continued to give commands when the man abruptly stood up near the restaurant door.
    Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • This electric kettle from Walmart will speedily heat up water for tea lovers or pour-over coffee connoisseurs.
    Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Worden tells me in an interview that Harvard scholar Robin Wordsworth, his co-author on a recent Red Planet study and one of the top American experts on terraforming Mars, is now designing compact astronaut outposts that can be positioned inside lava tubes and speedily inhabited.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Advertisement Even in regions without dams, farmers pumped recklessly from unmonitored wells.
    Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Edelman’s job was to contain any returner who might break outside instead of pursuing the kickoff as fast and recklessly as possible downfield.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The album sometimes does fit that description—especially on the relatively strong, if unexpectedly downcast, opening three songs.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The new Fair Oaks restaurant and an upcoming Roseville eatery are housed in units formerly filled by Chando’s Tacos — which shut down unexpectedly in July — with two other restaurants slated for Davis and Elk Grove.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Fueled by technology, our language adapts to new slang trends more rapidly than ever.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The news comes roughly three months after KPop Demon Hunters premiered on Netflix, rapidly becoming a pop culture phenomenon.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Opportunely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opportunely. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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