providential
Example Sentences
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But the return of “Top Gun” when the world is warring, burning and slaughtering amid shortages, inflation and planetary despair, seems poetic if not providential.
From Washington Post
The trip had been booked months in advance — a providential twist, he said.
From Washington Post
Over the decades since Fleming’s death, his followers have persisted with this providential view of things.
From New York Times
Note: Zelensky never did investigate the Bidens, a decision that must seem providential in retrospect.
From Washington Post
The wartime hero and peacetime leader, through a disputed national referendum in 1962, turned the presidency into a personalized, popularly elected office, an all-powerful providential figure.
From New York Times
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