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  • Fortuitously, we saw your paper and realized that you had researched solar activity.†  (source)
    Fortuitously = with happy chance
  • It was hot; the water was heavy, but the task turned out to be fortuitous for her—and for me.†  (source)
  • Robert Langdon's unexpected visit to Château Villette had brought the Teacher both a fortuitous windfall and an intricate dilemma.†  (source)
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  • This morning's cast indicated the captain would have a fortuitous encounter today.†  (source)
  • Fortuitously, this happened just as the government was falling apart anyway.†  (source)
    Fortuitously = with happy chance
  • of his love to go off with Tereza, the woman born of six laughable fortuities.†  (source)
    fortuities = things occurring by happy chance
  • As the tears subside a little, and with her head leaning backward at the angle that will not injure her bonnet, she endures that terrible moment when grief, which has made all things else a weariness, has itself become weary; she looks down pensively at her bracelets, and adjusts their clasps with that pretty studied fortuity which would be gratifying to her mind if it were once more in a calm and healthy state.†  (source)
    fortuity = something (or the quality of) occurring by happy chance
  • For a long while I believed that her choice to do so was a fortuitous accident.†  (source)
  • Fortuitously, Pa had acquired a union card during the construction of a plant in Marshall, Texas, where he worked for a few months shortly after the war.†  (source)
    Fortuitously = with happy chance
  • Much more than the card he slipped her at the last minute, it was the call of all those fortuities (the book, Beethoven, the number six, the yellow park bench) which gave her the courage to leave home and change her fate.†  (source)
    fortuities = things occurring by happy chance
  • The birds of fortuity had alighted once more on her shoulders.†  (source)
    fortuity = something (or the quality of) occurring by happy chance
  • The prologue rose to its reasonable climax: For that fortuitous girl the sweet day dawned To wed her gorgeous prince.†  (source)
  • Most fortuitously, Parkland Memorial Hospital is just four miles away, should Marina go into labor with the new baby while Oswald is at work.†  (source)
    fortuitously = with happy chance
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