fittingly
Americanadverb
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The historic, reinstated, Blue Riband event of these Games got a fittingly elite winner.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The right-handed closer is scheduled to be activated Wednesday — fittingly, when 40,000 fans will receive an Díaz bobblehead — after missing three months because of right elbow surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
But one fund manager, who fittingly works for a firm named Patient Capital Management, is finding that a value approach to stock-picking can still work even in this momentum-driven market.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
The soundtrack ebulliently features John Mellencamp’s “Small Town,” which fittingly notes, “Yeah, I can be myself in this here small town / And people let me be just what I want to be.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
In 2012, fifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, Vasili’s wife proudly told his story in a documentary titled, fittingly, The Man Who Saved the World.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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