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Meanings of fortuitous circumstances in English

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Usage of fortuitous circumstances in English
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The Welshman's defining moment as a commentator had occurred in slightly fortuitous circumstances.
The Irish Times
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These fortuitous circumstances perhaps rendered both so much the greater favourites at court.
The Two Admirals
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How far back should we be were it not for these fortuitous circumstances?
How To Write Special Feature Articles / A Handbook for Reporters...
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With the score goalless and half-time approaching, Fylde opened the scoring in fortuitous circumstances.
BBC
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It is strange what fortuitous circumstances seem to direct the current of our lives.
Old Valentines / A Love Story
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Take, for example, the peculiarly fortuitous circumstances under which he entered the Scribner publishing house.
The Americanization of Edward Bok / The Autobiography of a Dutch...
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Indeed, he is summoned without his choice by fortuitous circumstances from non-existence into life .
The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
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This was attributable not only to particular and fortuitous circumstances, but to general and lasting causes.
Democracy in America — Volume 2
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But these are no more than the fortuitous circumstances in which we chance to find ourselves.
The Trampling of the Lilies
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What had happened was due, he thought, to no plot, but to superficial and fortuitous circumstances.
Burke
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Of course, the victory owed more to fortuitous circumstances than to tactical genius, but Josef wouldn't complain.
Navigators of Dune
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He approaches nearer; with glistening eye she watches and hopes some fortuitous circumstances may call him aside.
Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius
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The common explanation is that they changed their mode of life in consequence of some ill-defined, fortuitous circumstances.
Russia
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This fortuitous circumstances added more the bliss of the Major than a thousand such exhibitions would have done.
The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
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The Duc de Sairmeuse was one of those men who remain superior to all fortuitous circumstances, good or bad.
The Honor of the Name
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It may be largely the result of fortuitous circumstances, of slight chance attractions in childhood, of accepted traditions consecrated by romance.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 / Sexual Selection In...
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