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It was a midtempo ballad about a string of fortuities — a sudden rain shower, a stoplight avoided, a left turn taken — that led to a couple’s meeting in a bar.

From New York Times • May 24, 2013

John Franklin Enders, 63, got interested in the viruses of polio and measles as the result of a series of fortunate fortuities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just before a Senate adjournment: The moving finger writes, and the fortuities of politics will probably result in change of some faces when we return in January .

From Time Magazine Archive

For that state,—that command—depends on that which 'changes,'— fortuities, impressions, nay, it has the principle of revolution within it.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

His real reason was that he wished to stop at Lower Merritt and experience whatever fortuities might happen to him from doing so.

From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean