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But this technology is flawed—stupid, even—because the same call to Australia can be placed when a phone is slipped into a pants pocket and gluteal pressure is inopportunely applied.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2019

You will take care to recenter you tie, which you wore inopportunely to the right.

From Newsweek ● Nov. 10, 2012

Warnings are withheld, paths fail to cross, backs are inopportunely turned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once he imitated his employer so successfully that the latter, arriving inopportunely, became angry and instantly discharged him.

From Time Magazine Archive

This thought troubled Emily; and she regretted much that this unusual journey should take place so inopportunely.

From The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins


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