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
Notable is the fact that he died most opportunely; in time to burst into print just before the circus's splendiferous opening in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But who are they who precede the band, appearing so opportunely on the scene of action?
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi
