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(as) regular as clockworkidiom
(right) on timephrase
cue
dot
on the dotidiom
opportunely
prompt
psychological moment
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regular
schedule
the time is ripeidiom
time
timekeeper
timekeeping
timeliness
timeously
timing
well timed

opportune | American Dictionary

opportune
adjective
us/ˌɑp·ərˈtun/
happening at a time which is likely to give success or which is convenient:
You couldn’t have arrived at a more opportune time.

Examples of opportune

opportune
It must take advantage of opportune moments to play countries and businesses off against each other.
This period thus represents an opportune time for intervention to alter patterns of attributional biases.
This is an important and opportune collection that provides a solid knowledge base about a neglected and vulnerable group of people.
The arrangement of places inside is opportune with respect to the orientation of each edge and needs for light.
This new journal is launched at a very opportune moment.
The volume has appeared at a specially opportune moment.
Now may be a particularly opportune moment to pursue in a little more depth these, and other related, issues.
In a dynamic-integrated system, decisions are made at the most opportune time using the best available knowledge.
It may be questioned whether it is opportune to have these different patient populations living together.
Changes in volume are essential to allow cell migration and, hence, these ion channels represent an opportune pharmacological target.
An additional political factor likely to affect departure decisions is the conscious choice to "hold out" until a more opportune time.
He offered a strong personality for gaining private funds and was at an opportune time to receive them.
It is therefore opportune to attribute the interaction to the lexical selection process which takes place (in a functional sense) after conceptual activation.
Upon the arrival of the opportune moment, a circle of men formed a passage for the herd that led to the entrance of the keddah.
Now is therefore an opportune time to obtain basic data on new methods for controlling forest defoliating pests.
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