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What does fortuitous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Happening by chance; coincidental or accidental.
  2. Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
  3. (law) Happening independently of human will.
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Much of the success of the text is by design, other aspects are by fortuitous accident.
So on a meander along the city footpaths, it was fortuitous that we came across this venue, just when a lunch break was called for.
It was rather fortuitous then, to have the Prime Minister himself underline the need for a more direct and reliable land route.
If such evidence surfaces, watch out for another fortuitous destruction of those records.
In our analysis, we took advantage of these fortuitous differences by incorporating weather as a categorical factor.
Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested.

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