Om Malik

Looking back, Google's success came from the fortuitous timing of being born at the cusp of the broadband age. But it also came about because of the new reality of the Internet: a lot of services were going to be algorithmic, and owning your own infrastructure would be a key advantage.

Indian Writer

Catherine Tate

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.

English Actress

Alanis Morissette

My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

Canadian Musician

Stella Young

I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing.

Australian Comedian

Claire Foy

I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and think that what your character is doing is ridiculous. You don't want anyone to watch it and go, 'Oh my God, that's just fortuitous.

Ethan Coen

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

American Director

Barbara Kruger

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

American Artist

Jacques Ibert

The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.

French Composer

C. P. Scott

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

British Journalist

Joe Buck

American Celebrity

Use 'fortuitous' to describe events that occur unexpectedly and without intention or planning.

Unplanned Events

'Fortuitous' does not suggest positive or negative outcomes, focusing on chance occurrence.

Neutral Tone

While it means by chance, 'fortuitous' often hints at a fortunate outcome more than mere accident.

Subtle Nuances

Use 'fortuitous' to denote an event bringing unexpected good luck or benefit.

Positive Outcome

When using 'fortuitous' in this sense, there's a connotation of happy serendipity involved.

Serendipitous Tone

Before using 'fortuitous', think if the fortunate aspect is clear in the context or if it needs clarification.

Reflect on Context

 So we think this rear-flank downdraft just pulses. And these pulses in this rear-flank downdraft, we think, are very important for converging that rotation, but also getting that rotation into the right place. Other things we've learned is that we have gotten a bunch of fortuitous measurements in the path of the tornadoes and very near the surface.

How to track a tornado -...

 control methods or more effective control methods now when you think you've made a discovery of what the dynamic that surprises everyone because when you say the reason locust because their cannibal its sucking each other it certainly surprised us it was it was completely fortuitous are you

Cannibal Bugs and...

 they're completely crowded together, they're jammed, they're bashing up against each other. And if you don't understand that in your mental model of this stuff, what happens inside of a cell seems completely mysterious and fortuitous,