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The timing is fortuitous.
It is The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game which are the two films expected to predominate at this year's Baftas, the weirdly fortuitous pairing of two distinguished, intelligent, slightly theatrical performances and two brilliant British scientists cursed with the traditional qualities glibly associated with genius: shyness, loneliness, and disability of various sorts.
Price action on the FTSE 100 today would have been a lot uglier were it not for some fortuitous M&A news among the miners.
Even his occasional successes (The Trip, to pick a recent example) feel like the fortuitous by-products of a career spent restlessly pursuing whatever tale or technique last piqued his interest.
Colombia 1 Venezuela 0 Tressor Moreno's 22nd-minute penalty enabled the holders Colombia to scrape a slightly fortuitous 1-0 victoveroVenezuelauela in the opening match of the tournament.
Meanwhile, no one can really know whether the fortuitous boost from lower oil prices can outweigh in electoral terms the general impression that so many people in this country feel they are just scraping a living, and that the coalition has a lot to answer for.
While their husbands were out labouring all day in the fields or the fishing boats, the women of Juchitán took charge of trade, bartering and haggling with every foreigner who passed through this fortuitous bottleneck between the two continents of America.
The deficit is falling thanks to the cyclical recovery of the economy, the expiry of your stimulus programmes, a fortuitous but partly temporary slowdown in health-care costs, and three deficit-reduction packages worth 1% of GDP over the next decade.This isn't good enough.
The same Hayekian convictions also straightforwardly imply that regulation meant to govern interaction within complex and evolving economic, legal, and political institutions will inevitably lead to unpredictable and unintended consequences, some fortuitous , some disastrous.
A stout Japanese defence and a fortuitous wind storm prevented the Mongols from landing and provided fodder for the myth of the "Divine Wind"—kamikaze that protected Japan from invaders.A few centuries later, into the rule of the Ming dynasty, Japan enjoyed the opportunity to turn the tables.
Blue Streak was cancelled due to spiralling costs, effectively ending the country's interest in launching rockets.Silver liningThese were disasters at the time, but in retrospect also rather fortuitous.
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The adjective "fortuitous " primarily functions to modify nouns, indicating that an event, situation, or occurrence happened by chance. As Ludwig AI confirms, it suggests an element of luck or unexpectedness. For instance, "a fortuitous meeting" or "a fortuitous discovery."
Expression frequency: Very common
