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opportune

[op-er-toon, -tyoon] / ˌɒp ərˈtun, -ˈtyun /


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Licensing for movies and TV is also booming, and with Y2K nostalgia permeating today’s media, Spears may be selling at an opportune time.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Patients say winter is an opportune time to recover from all that work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Instead, he saw it as an opportune moment to take stock after a "hectic" schedule.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

They sketched out priorities and drafted legislative language on whiteboards, then waited for the opportune moment to introduce a bill.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

I thus thought it opportune to relate at this point, as precisely as possible, what had taken place earlier between myself and Lord Darlington.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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