fortuitously
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Surgeons Alan Goldman and Martin Elliott were among those searching for answers when they met in a break room at the hospital where, fortuitously, a Formula One race was on the television.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
His approach leaked right and hit a spectator before fortuitously coming to rest a couple of yards off the edge of the green.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2024
The wispy, glowing “engagement ring” wrapped around the cluster’s center is actually a set of amplified, warped and multiplied apparitions of a fortuitously aligned, far-distant background galaxy.
From Scientific American • Oct. 11, 2023
Indeed, in 2022 California experienced its driest January, February, and March in over 100 years, following a fortuitously wet December.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2023
At this moment, fortuitously, their neighbor Mr. Wilkinson intervened.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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