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Recent Examples of fortuity
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
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
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
Philissa Cramer, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2020
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
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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Even with all of this uncertainty, AI offers hope — a new blueprint and an opportunity to reimagine and reconstruct the very foundations of content creation.—
Solo Ceesay,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
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Farther north, Friends of Acadia — the philanthropic partner of Acadia National Park in Maine — says job cuts and hiring delays have added new layers of uncertainty to the park's summer plans.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, Cook and Mertz’s results have galvanized interest in catalytic computing, with new works exploring connections to randomness (opens a new tab) and the effects of allowing a few (opens a new tab) mistakes (opens a new tab) in resetting the full memory to its original state.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Feb. 2025
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The new approach combines a little knowledge of the bookshelf’s past contents with the surprising power of randomness.—
Steve Nadis,
WIRED,
16 Feb. 2025
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The Nets did follow up that accident by becoming the first team all season to fail to score 100 points against the Washington Wizards.—
Law Murray,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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By the numbers: There have been 13 fatal U.S. aviation accidents so far in 2025, per NTSB data.—
Alex Fitzpatrick,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
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Under state law, murder in the first degree only applies to a narrow list of aggravating circumstances, including when the victim is a judge, a police officer or a first responder, or when the killing involves a murder-for-hire or an intent to commit terrorism.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN,
21 Feb. 2025
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The thematic architecture is lucidly in place in this tale of sons stepping out of the shadows of their fathers to test their mettle in the most perilous of circumstances.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The discovery was a stroke of geological luck; Zhurong's beach would probably have eroded away into something unrecognizable over the last 3.5 billion years if it hadn't been buried beneath those 33 feet of rocky, dusty debris from asteroid impacts, volcanoes and dust storms.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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The manager said the bank that approved the loan had tried contacting the woman for about two months without any luck.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
24 Feb. 2025
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By happenstance, Carver County Community Development (CDA) approached the then-nascent board of Beyond New Beginnings with an offer.—
Graham P. Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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But that mix of styles established its own happenstance logic over time.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2025
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Several states waste federal funding for removing lead paint hazards by preventing out-of-state workers from contributing to that work.—
Salim Furth,
The Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2025
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Adding an additional layer of engagement could raise cognitive burden and pose safety hazards.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 Feb. 2025
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Given these historical precedents and the current political landscape, the chances of successfully removing a judge over policy disagreements remain slim.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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The preferential ballot means a film’s best chance at winning depends on which movies get eliminated first — those with the fewest No. 1 votes.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
25 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Fortuity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fortuity. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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