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apropos
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apropos as in:  an apropos question

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  • "I should have let you drive yourself today," he announced, apropos of nothing, while I chewed.  (source)
  • The Tarot indicator suit for feminine divinity is pentacles, Langdon thought, realizing that if Saunière had been stacking his granddaughter's deck for fun, pentacles was an apropos inside joke.  (source)
    apropos = appropriate
  • We were silent for a while, and suddenly Lucy murmured as if to herself . . . "His red eyes again! They are just the same." It was such an odd expression, coming apropos of nothing, that it quite startled me.  (source)
    apropos = following
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  • Miss Crawford smiled her perfect approbation; and hastened to complete the gift by putting the necklace round her, and making her see how well it looked. Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition so very apropos.  (source)
    apropos = appropriate (relevant to her need)
  • It was apropos of nothing, and there was nothing else to say.†  (source)
  • I found myself becoming hungry, but could not suggest a snack; it would not have been apropos right then, and the food was beyond the pale.†  (source)
  • She smiled at her next thought, strangely apropos: I'm confirmed.†  (source)
  • Maybe uniquely apropos.†  (source)
  • "You like red wine or white wine?" he suddenly asked, apropos of nothing.†  (source)
  • It was an "instance of divine favor, for nothing surely ever came more apropos," Washington wrote immediately to Joseph Reed.†  (source)
  • At one point, apropos of nothing, Vivian says, "So where is that mother of yours, anyway?"†  (source)
  • But, apropos this topic—" He turned to Berger again.†  (source)
  • Apropos of which, and of a pair of stumbling-drunk, armed policemen we'd recently passed, Deo said, "This is a country of alcoholics now.†  (source)
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