Fortuitous

A fortuitous Shaun Johnson try with 13 minutes to go was the key moment in a tense 16-14 win for the Warriors over Canterbury at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland.

Arsenal would level in fortuitous circumstances as, deep into stoppage time, Trossard’s shot took a deflection off Akanji, wrong-footing Ortega and sending the Arsenal fans behind the goal into raptures.

Buoyed by that fortuitous jolt, Cratloe could have out the result beyond doubt only for further goal chances for Podge Collins and Diarmuid Ryan to agonisingly flash wide of the far right post.

Cartwright had to be alert to deny Maddox following a fortuitous bounce of the ball, but Grimsby’s shot-stopper was out quickly to smother.

For Lukács, irrationalism, including its ultimate coalescence with Nazism, was no fortuitous development, but rather a product of capitalism itself.

He said it was "very fortuitous" that the light of a galaxy in the distant universe travelled extremely close to this black hole, which is roughly two billion light years from Earth.

The fashion accessory was born of a fortuitous encounter on a London-bound flight in the 1980s with the then-head of Hermes, Jean-Louis Dumas.

The impact event and Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum were, ironically, fortuitous for humans: They paved the way for our ancestors.

Then, years later and seemingly out of nowhere, a fortuitous correspondence appeared.

The PNC, under the guise of the Coalition, was given a fortuitous opportunity in 2015 to make amends for its destructive and evil past, but deliberately squandered it because of greed.

United's midfield was overrun in the fortuitous 1-0 win over Wolves and a post-match graphic of the players' average positions showed how isolated defensive midfielder Casemiro was, with the other members of the front six pushed higher up.

INDIANAPOLIS — Just this month, Chauncey Billups had a fortuitous opportunity to visit his parents during the NBA season and spend quality time in the city he still fondly considers a home.

Joel's decisions sent Midge to the Gaslight one fortuitous night, leading her to a new career path.

Mr Dawson said it was "fortuitous" that Mr Yousaf had been able to supply the inquiry with his own WhatsApp messages.

Our scores were a bit fortuitous.

Sometimes a piece of music we’ve known for decades (or, in the case of one reader’s story about a song, about as long as we can remember) boomerangs back into our lives with poetic and fortuitous timing.

That they found it is fortuitous, given their precise criteria.

The meetings started in the 1970s, as many fortuitous things do in this town, over steaming bowls of red beans and rice.

The rare artifacts date back to around 500 BCE—and the detectorist's second go was somehow just as fortuitous.

Boyle’s bad fortune that day appeared to be fortuitous.