Synonyms for adventitious:
adj. from outside
Examples of uses:
Dobel had a real sense of irony and would have appreciated that I got one last, to use his word, adventitious glimpse of Amanda as I was leaving for JFK.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
The thought of these things is adventitious, changeable, and does not apply to permanent objects.
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Title: Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3, author: Plotinos (Plotinus), url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42932/42932-h/42932-h.htm
In all of these cases, the movement of displacement is identical, and presents only adventitious differences.
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Title: Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3, author: Plotinos (Plotinus), url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42932/42932-h/42932-h.htm
He wants all these adventitious excitements, but he has that within which is a greater excitement than all these.
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Title: Rookwood, author: William Harrison Ainsworth, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23564/23564-h/23564-h.htm
And yet it is but an adventitious honour, which will soon fade, if it be not sustained by personal character and real excellence.
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Title: Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I, author: Francis Augustus Cox, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9782/9782-h/9782-h.htm
He was more so than Columbus, and rendered the adventitious career of the Genoese possible.
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Title: Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery, author: Justin Winsor, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42059/42059-h/42059-h.htm
Turning to stem structure, we find that he understood the difference in origin between stem buds and adventitious roots.
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Title: Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46415/46415-h/46415-h.htm
For the internal motion then commences to betray and exert itself when the external and adventitious is removed.
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Title: Novum Organum, author: Francis Bacon, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45988/45988-h/45988-h.htm
Then too—there were certain adventitious aids to ward off the shadow of coming years.
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Title: Helen Grant's Schooldays, author: Amanda M. Douglas, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32496/32496-h/32496-h.htm
The part that Bunker had played in bringing about this moral catastrophe was, however, purely adventitious.
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Title: The Crusade of the Excelsior, author: Bret Harte, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2471/2471-h/2471-h.htm
