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fortuitous circumstance

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meanings of fortuitousand circumstance


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fortuitous
adjective
uk /fɔːˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs/ us /fɔːrˈtuː.ə.t̬əs/
(of something that is to your advantage) not planned, happening ...
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circumstance
noun
uk /ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/ us /ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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Examples of fortuitous circumstance


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It is, from their point of view, a fortuitouscircumstance which has turned to their advantage.
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That was a fortuitouscircumstance, but solely on that account a penalty is now imposed in that particular case.
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We know that waiters' wages are determined by reference to the fortuitouscircumstance that they may or may not receive tips.
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It was thought that their situation was different and that they should be allowed to continue—a fortuitouscircumstance which enabled them to survive.
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That there were only 16 lives lost was simply due to a fortuitouscircumstance.
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In the next place, the experience of the industry proves that it requires only some accidental, fortuitouscircumstance to occur to destroy the scheme altogether.
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The rise in the value of securities has nothing to do with railway stockholders and was a fortuitouscircumstance.
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It is a fortuitouscircumstance for those people who believe in war and in armies, and in army contracts, that this enemy has come along.
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The fortuitouscircumstance has arisen that we have had a fuel crisis.
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It is a fortuitouscircumstance that intervention has not been a factor during that short period.
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The latter was a most fortuitouscircumstance.
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I cannot believe it is the intention that the tax should depend upon such a fortuitouscircumstance as the date on which a certain account is made up.
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This fortuitouscircumstance had, moreover, another effect, in that it greatly raised the critical knowledge of pictures.
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He recognized the role of that fortuitouscircumstance in permitting him to guess and declare in 1659 the real nature of the planets ring.
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Unless fortuitous circumstances prevail, this equation will not be satisfied and a modification of the previous terms in the asymptotic expansion must be made to avoid this contradiction.
We find that about £390 million of that £463 million was due to temporary, short-term fortuitous circumstances.
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Therefore, it is a matter of totally fortuitous circumstances whether he is in the third, the 30th or the 300th car which they check.
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There were probably fortuitous circumstances involved, as there are in most things where there is a transformation like this.
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Owing to fortuitous circumstances, it has, however, been possible to make an exception in this case and the doctor will be released for two months.
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Only in those fortuitous circumstances would they have been recovered 47 minutes earlier.
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