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adventitious

adjective as in from outside

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Entry into the literary pantheon, Jackson says, requires meeting thresholds for quality and quantity, but after that, “adventitious circumstances take over.”

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Williams’s radiant sound and adventitious origins have made her a key figure in a diverse dawn for the solo guitar.

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Tomatoes have the ability to produce roots off their stems, known as adventitious roots.

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Karhiders eat four solid meals a day, breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, along with a lot of adventitious nibbling and gobbling in between.

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"We have common memories and common experiences that bind us so closely together that no adventitious circumstances can wrench us apart," he wrote in one of his letters.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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