fortuitous
Fortuitously, at that very moment, the wedding cake arrived.
The red and blue baseball cap fortuitously matched the colours of his clothes.
a fortuitously timed decision

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Examples of fortuitously

fortuitously
Fortuitously universities, faced with cuts in government funding, have seen the advantages of engaging in 'trade' through the vehicle of oil industry research contracts.
In the current paper we assume that the effect of policy on the structural parameters of private-sector equations is fortuitously negligible for our experiment.
Everything else about the book followed, more or less fortuitously, from that essentially craven and self-protective move.
Members of the network were also asked to collect all dead mustelids found fortuitously in the wild.
However, only one character had the intention to carry out the desire (for the other character the desire came about fortuitously).
Fortuitously, the chaperonins probably represent the best understood family of molecular chaperones in terms of structure-function relationships.
Second, it cannot be maintained a priori that the innateness of a constraint, either one environmentally driven or one more fortuitously arrived at, precludes plasticity.
It does not mean that a deser ved setback fortuitously meted out pursuant to the nontracking rule is also unjustified.
Perpetrator-related bias in attribution scores was minimized by this fortuitously even distribution.
When war fortuitously brought the opportunity to expunge the savage and end that threat, they took up the gauntlet with an unprecedented ferocity.
I learnt about these putative negotiations somewhat fortuitously.
And, fortuitously, this implies that there is sufficient information to obtain unique estimates of the model's coefficients.
Fortuitously, we found that these precautions were not necessary.
Where they are unequal, one thinks of them as fortuitously distributed, as part of a kind of natural or social lottery or as the result of good or bad luck.
One can also safely surmise that the illiterate workers of 1951 were unlikely to be able to opt out of the wage economy because they had fortuitously inherited land.
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