Example Sentences

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Surgeons Alan Goldman and Martin Elliott were among those searching for answers when they met in a break room at the hospital where, fortuitously, a Formula One race was on the television.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

Many strange yet unexpectedly wonderful pairings begin with two superb commodities fortuitously coming together.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2025

She fortuitously decided to come to Ipswich this weekend, as part of her travels around the UK.

From BBC • May 4, 2025

The wispy, glowing “engagement ring” wrapped around the cluster’s center is actually a set of amplified, warped and multiplied apparitions of a fortuitously aligned, far-distant background galaxy.

From Scientific American • Oct. 11, 2023

At this moment, fortuitously, their neighbor Mr. Wilkinson intervened.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng