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fortuitously

How to use fortuitously in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for fortuitously.

Editorial note

Less than fortuitously, those 15 folks had 10 to 100 messages queued, each.

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Quick take

by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good"

Meaning at a glance

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adverb

by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fortuitously.

adverb

by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good"

Example sentences

1

Less than fortuitously, those 15 folks had 10 to 100 messages queued, each.

2

... and apparently people have been saying that about "fortuitously" since the 1920s.

3

And hey, maybe some of those people will be mysteriously, fortuitously successful.

4

The "get a bunch of users and then solve the money problem" model seems the path of the apps that hit it out of the park, oftentimes fortuitously.

5

We're not officially engaged yet, but suffice it to say that, if October were to set another record this year, that would be fortuitously timed.

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On later investigation, it turned out that the engine loss was due to massive oscillations in the rocket that would have torn it apart within a few more seconds if the engine hadn't fortuitously shut down.

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They might even have started selecting which seeds to scatter, either fortuitously preferring the smaller ones for flavor or being smart enough to deliberately select the mutants with higher yields to sow for next year.

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Or is the goal to try to introduce entire modified HIV genomes into cells and then have those be fortuitously replicated and bound into HIV particles which will hopefully go out and re-infect other T-cells and in the process inhibit the HIV production rate?

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CD46 is a ubiquitous complement regulatory protein that, fortuitously, is highly expressed on human myeloma cells, making them abnormally susceptible to MV-NIS infection, syncytium formation, and cell killing.

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I considered everything from music to writing to psychology in throes of self-doubt, but what it came down to in the end was that nothing excites me the way computer technology does, which fortuitously enough happened to be my intended major from the get-go.

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I can't find a reference for this, but I seem to recall that Azul uses virtualization features of modern CPUs to decrease the read-barrier overhead; if that is correct, then that's a case of the general-purpose hardware fortuitously getting features to out-compete special-purpose hardware.

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This is the NP-hard problem of HIV therapies!Or is the goal to try to introduce entire modified HIV genomes into cells and then have those be fortuitously replicated and bound into HIV particles which will hopefully go out and re-infect other T-cells and in the process inhibit the HIV production rate?In a word, yes.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use fortuitously in a sentence?

Less than fortuitously, those 15 folks had 10 to 100 messages queued, each.

What does fortuitously mean?

by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good"

What part of speech is fortuitously?

fortuitously is commonly used as adverb.