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The great project of modern physics, for instance, has led to speculation about a multiverse in part because it has repeatedly confirmed the strange fittedness of our universe to human life.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2021

But how many of the human race are in the habit of projecting their heads into things for which they have no fittedness!

From Around The Tea-Table by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

But now he first realized, as he watched Corrie, that Isabel Rose was placed here by circumstance and not by fittedness.

From From the Car Behind by Flagg, James Montgomery

In every animal and every plant the trained eye sees unending examples of adaptation; that is, of a fittedness to the work it has to do.

From The Meaning of Evolution by Schmucker, Samuel Christian

I would greatly prefer to honor and hail them all for the singular fittedness of their gifts to the needs of the nation in their times.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)