apropos
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She incorporates films as seemingly irrelevant but surprisingly apropos as the Bela Lugosi horror movie “The Black Cat” and an Astaire-Rogers musical.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
“I was born upside down,” he says, apropos of nothing they might understand.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2024
During an appearance on The Late Show, when Stephen Colbert asked, apropos of nothing, if she has a favorite novelty flag to display at her home, Jackson laughed and offered a polite “no comment.”
From Slate • Oct. 4, 2024
Over and over again he kept bringing it up, apropos of nothing, as if on a loop.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2024
At one point, apropos of nothing, Vivian says, “So where is that mother of yours, anyway?”
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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