Sentence examples for fortuitous means from inspiring English sources

Fortuitous means coincidental or unplanned and does not mean fortunate.

On-the-spot fines will be issued to people who say "refute" when they mean "deny", "fortuitous" when they mean "fortunate" and "floor" when they mean "ground".

Also, in precise usage "fortuitous" does not mean "fortunate" or "lucky"; it means "happening by chance".

Eventually, the inclusion of the father confirmed which one was the fortuitous match by means of three inconsistencies (D18S51, Penta E, and CSF1PO), discarding undoubtedly the biological relationship of one sample (FM1, see Table 1).

The vice president's reference to the Tea Party is by no means fortuitous; there are clear indications the Democrats are trying to utilize the Occupy movement the way the Republicans do the Tea Party.

Sometimes that means a fortuitous opportunity to use news and names that have reappeared in the cycle of American history".

While those around them were being beaten at home, Tottenham took a fortuitous lead at the meanest stadium in the Premier League, through Van der Vaart, only to concede six minutes from time.

This sounds bleakly fortuitous, but that irregularity meant that she "wouldn't have one for ages" and it would then "come really unexpectedly and be so painful.

The fortuitous development of the internet meant that classification data could be disseminated over the web.

"What emerges from our survey," he wrote, "is that the Spanish Inquisition was by no means the result of a fortuitous concourse of circumstances and events.

Psychiatrists first started focusing on how much the ready availability of lethal means affected suicide rates after a fortuitous experiment in England.