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opportune

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1. opportune - Adjective

2. opportune - Verb

Meaning

Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely.

To suit.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. Charlie Chaplin

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things. Hesiod

War is righteous or unrighteous according as it is opportune or inopportune. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

Thou wast indeed fortunate, Agricola, not only in the splendour of thy life, but in the opportune moment of thy death. Tacitus

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times. Jack Youngblood

He is a patsy and a fraud – the kind of public personality totalitarian regimes used to nurture for years in order to execute for a lack of orthodoxy at some opportune historical moment much later on. Tucker Carlson

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