opportunely

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A decree signed by Communications Minister Mayra Arevich was meant to “prevent, detect and respond opportunely to possible enemy, criminal and harmful activities that could occur in cyberspace.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2021

Then back to one’s seat for diversion in the opportunely unreal world of late 18th-century Viennese opéra bouffe.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2017

Jordan was charged with tax fraud at the time; then, opportunely, Grunewald's friend Charlie Oliphant declined to prosecute on the grounds that Jordan was ill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some painful, intimate truths are far easier to confess to a chance friend opportunely met than to the closest member of the family.

From Time Magazine Archive

After prayers, in which Miss Stanley herself joined, borrowing a chapelet, they went off to snore peacefully in the guardianship of that great brain so opportunely discovered.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth