See apposite on Wiktionary
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"text": "c. 1833–1856, Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2/3,\nMedical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation; …."
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"ref": "1950 October, R. S. McNaught, “Joys of the Unexpected”, in Railway Magazine, page 689:",
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"ref": "1963 April, “New Books: London's Underground (Third edition revised and enlarged). By H. F. Howson. Ian Allan. 21s.”, in Modern Railways, page 288:",
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"ref": "2014 January 4, Danny Kruger, “The big society is not about picking litter: it is meant to be a challenge”, in The Guardian:",
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"ref": "2023 January 1, John Harris, “The wreckage of Brexit is all around us. How long can our politicians indulge in denial?”, in The Guardian:",
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"ref": "2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "Or is that just the way art is now? The neo-Victorian craze is very apposite.",
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"ref": "1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Machinery in Motion”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 197:",
"text": "Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr. F's Aunt had a great deal of spirit.",
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"ref": "1950 October, R. S. McNaught, “Joys of the Unexpected”, in Railway Magazine, page 689:",
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"ref": "1963 April, “New Books: London's Underground (Third edition revised and enlarged). By H. F. Howson. Ian Allan. 21s.”, in Modern Railways, page 288:",
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"ref": "2014 January 4, Danny Kruger, “The big society is not about picking litter: it is meant to be a challenge”, in The Guardian:",
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"ref": "2023 January 1, John Harris, “The wreckage of Brexit is all around us. How long can our politicians indulge in denial?”, in The Guardian:",
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"ref": "2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
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