opportune
adjective
appropriate, favorable, or suitable.
opportunely
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a word derived from
opportune.
Example Sentences
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A decree signed by Communications Minister Mayra Arevich was meant to “prevent, detect and respond opportunely to possible enemy, criminal and harmful activities that could occur in cyberspace.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2021
Then back to one’s seat for diversion in the opportunely unreal world of late 18th-century Viennese opéra bouffe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2017
Jordan was charged with tax fraud at the time; then, opportunely, Grunewald's friend Charlie Oliphant declined to prosecute on the grounds that Jordan was ill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some painful, intimate truths are far easier to confess to a chance friend opportunely met than to the closest member of the family.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three tug boats arrived opportunely, and the water which they threw saved the wharf and lumber.
From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by George Stewart
