opportunely

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for opportunely
Adverb
  • In an interview with the Financial Times published Monday, Langone decried Trump’s tariffs as too large, imposed too hastily, and based on an incoherent mathematical formula.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The fresh graves of their dead wives and children are lined neatly in a row, the result of a strike hastily agreed to over text message thousands of miles away.
    Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • Last week, the president threatened to impose massive tariffs on numerous countries—including a cumulative 145% tariff on Chinese imports—before abruptly dialing back his approach and issuing exemptions on electronics and PC parts.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In January, the U.S. abruptly halted 90 percent of its humanitarian and development assistance to Ukraine.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The Santa Clara Master Gardeners Spring Garden Fair is a terrific place to select plants not readily available elsewhere, selected for outstanding taste, beauty and performance in the local soil and climate.
    Debby Rice, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In most cases, ICE never followed through with the deportations because the immigrants had lived in the U.S. long enough that their home countries no longer recognized them as citizens, or as is the case with Laos, the home country does not readily issue repatriation documents.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
Adverb
  • The South, for its part, responded in kind: secession swiftly forged a fractured region into a reactive unity, bound by fear of emancipation and faith in a mythic agrarian freedom.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • This glow-inducing formula dries down swiftly without leaving a sticky or greasy film.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 20 Apr. 2025
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“Opportunely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opportunely. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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