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  • We have an interview with PBS, an interview with NPR -- fortuitus bit of scheduling that's probably a lot better than the $25 pledge I sent in during pledge week.

    Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1998

  • On Friday Mr Justice F H Grosskopf held that Heneways had established that the loss caused by the theft was a 'casus fortuitus' (fortuitious or unavoidable accident) and not by any fault on its part.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Among those he labelled were the Staphylococcus pyogenes albus, the Micrococcus fervidosus, the Saccharomyces rosaceus, and the Bacillus buccalis fortuitus.

    II. The Outworks of the Slum Taken 1902

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