opportune

Example Sentences

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A Treasury official said the speech comes at an opportune time just after Yellen also spoke last week with counterparts from G7 democracies, Australia and New Zealand.

From Reuters

“Today was the opportune time to get the round under par,” he said, “and I didn’t do that.”

From Seattle Times

There’s usually an opportune confluence, however, of the needs for crop irrigation and hydro generation in summer when farms thirst for water and the electrical grid is strained by air conditioners running full blast.

From Los Angeles Times

By implication, he suggests, the Trump era might have been avoided had different choices been made at opportune moments.

From Washington Post

Reportedly, the real-life Langley really was driven by an almost psychic sense of where she would ultimately find Richard — up to and including the letter “R” appearing at an opportune moment.

From Washington Post