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Recent Examples of opportunity
Incidents like this not only deepen partisan divides but also create opportunities for foreign adversaries to manipulate public perception, fuel distrust, and further destabilize an already fractured political landscape.
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Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Consider this an opportunity to heal, rest, retreat and practice more mindfulness.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
In an interview with Ars, Bolton suggested the radiation issue creates another opportunity for NASA to learn from the Juno mission.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
And yet, all of us have an opportunity right now to do something different.
—Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
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Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Consider this an opportunity to heal, rest, retreat and practice more mindfulness.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
In an interview with Ars, Bolton suggested the radiation issue creates another opportunity for NASA to learn from the Juno mission.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
And yet, all of us have an opportunity right now to do something different.
—Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for opportunity
Noun
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Being able to generate code was finally getting a chance to shine in the bright lights of another erstwhile reason to use generative AI and LLMs.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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There was an official welcome outdoors, a private carriage procession around the Windsor Estate (which the public were kept away from) and the President and First Lady had a chance to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II at her tomb in St George's Chapel.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The most notorious, in 1978, saw the late queen hide behind a bush in the gardens of Buckingham Palace to avoid Nicolae Ceaușescu, having already removed anything that the Romanian dictator could steal from his room following a warning from Giscard d'Estaing, the then French president.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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In follow-up comments, the original poster noted that their roommate had already claimed the larger room.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Opportunity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opportunity. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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