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Apposite
Example Sentences
Main Entry:
ap·po·site
[
ap
-
uh
-zit
,
uh
-
poz
-it
]
/
ˈæp
ə
zɪt
,
əˈpɒz
ɪt
/
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Part of Speech:
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Apposite
Main Entry:
apposite
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example Sentences
Seldom have the old slogans seemed more apposite.
This remains apposite advice at a time when the peace process is in a fragile condition but strong in its fundamentals.
Revolutionary is an abused word in biotech, but here it is entirely apposite.
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Seldom have the old slogans seemed more apposite.
This remains apposite advice at a time when the peace process is in a fragile condition but strong in its fundamentals.
Revolutionary is an abused word in biotech, but here it is entirely apposite.
His humorous tales and novels of Swiss life were often illustrated with his own apposite drawings.
Competitors were invited to submit five such invented names, each with an apposite occupation.
It was comparatively a simple matter to choose a few excerpts that seemed particularly apposite to our own situation today.
In ordinary course, apposite forms proliferate.
But such words, though apposite, belong on grant applications.
Timing is everything, and this gathering of works couldn't look or feel more apposite.
If two versions of a report are equally apposite, but incompatible with each other, the reader is not denied that knowledge.
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