on occasion
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It is a fitting occasion to recall how George Harrison, railing against Britain’s confiscatory tax regime, unwittingly helped create the template for this market.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Though the world has moved on from Fessenden’s accomplishments, Jairam said the holidays are a fitting occasion to revisit them.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2019
She was not, however, ashamed of her religion, 89 and, if the fitting occasion arose, she was fearless in expressing her opinion.
From A World of Girls The Story of a School by Meade, L. T.
Most of these were in the form of elderly ladies who had lost near relatives in the river and chose this as the fitting occasion to tell me about it.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
They were very anxious to come and play at the château, and we promised they should whenever a fitting occasion should present itself.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
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