apposite

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This occupies educational space at the expense of such disciplines — the term is apposite — as history and mathematics, with their exacting chronologies and sequential mastery of increasingly complex material.

From Washington Post

Given that our country has had roughly 600,000 pandemic deaths, I wonder whether “etiquette” is the most apposite term here.

From New York Times

The words “servitude” and “dominion” are apposite in takings clause jurisprudence.

From Washington Post

We started doing movies that we called “comfort watches” — something from history that we thought was somehow either apposite to the pandemic or an antidote to it.

From New York Times

Her decision to make a solo piece was oddly apposite.

From New York Times