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opportunistically

[ahp-er-too-nist-ik-lee]

adverb

  1. in a way that suggests or is characterized by opportunism.

  2. Pathology.,  (of a microorganism) in an opportunistic way; under certain conditions, such as when the host is weakened or malnourished.



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“It seemed the dealers were just sitting on my lists and bidding extremely opportunistically themselves,” said Burry.

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In addition, the portfolio manager can opportunistically use mutual fund cash flows to rebalance positions, which may help further reduce tracking error relative to a mutual fund.

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"The Chinese Intelligence Services are interested in acquiring information from a number of sources, including policymakers, government staff and democratic institutions and are able to act opportunistically to gather all information they can."

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Nonetheless he thinks it makes sense to use that volatility to keep buying stocks, writing that he is still “constructive on longer-term fundamentals, meaning pullbacks should be viewed opportunistically.”

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"This was exploited in a very broad way, very opportunistically before a patch was made available. That's why this is significant," Carmakal said.

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