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Good Charlotte’s return is propitiously timed given the broader emo and pop-punk revival that’s ushered other turn-of-the-millennium acts like Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance into stadiums over the past few years.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025

He mostly taught about the separation of powers, but recently, and perhaps propitiously, he turned his attention to the Supreme Court.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2018

The year started propitiously for him, as Cuban-backed Sandinista guerrillas overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, but it ended in ignominy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2016

In this, he was helped by his protégé, the propitiously named Wynkyn de Worde, whose fonts were imitated throughout Europe.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2010

The consequences of this proceeding eventuated in such a favorable crisis to the papal designs, that, had the ablest pope projected and engineered them they could not have culminated more propitiously.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John