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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

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

For Western navies the improvements come at an opportune time, after China built the world’s largest surface naval fleet and its own large autonomous underwater vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Nor does BTD, he notes, do much as a complement to existing stock allocations as a way to increase or decrease exposure tactically at opportune times.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

A chemist seeking to understand the gene has no more opportune moment to capture the chemical nature of the gene.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee