Adjective : Pneumocystis pneumonia is an opportunistic disease that often strikes victims of AIDS. From Dictionary.com.
"opportunistically" - when they are selling at prices to low for the company to resist. From Wordnik.com. [SiliconBeat] Reference
He said the company would look at "opportunistically" tapping credit markets, including funding sources in the U.S., sell "noncore" assets, or reprioritize its capital spending. From Wordnik.com. [GM May Look to Raise Additional Cash] Reference
"opportunistically," and no specific purposes have yet been identified, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. From Wordnik.com. [WSJ.com: What's News US] Reference
Minke whales are opportunistically taken in Alaska. From Wordnik.com. [Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic] Reference
He didn't filibuster, he did't opportunistically spin. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Doesn't "Take Fox On," After All] Reference
• Repeat and spread success opportunistically and relentlessly. From Wordnik.com. [John Kenagy: When Healthcare Solutions Become Problems] Reference
They're not just running around willy-nilly, firing opportunistically. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2006] Reference
TUCSA opportunistically 'sold the trade union movement down the river', by. From Wordnik.com. [12 STATE REPRESSION] Reference
At the top, the rhetoric of populism is utilized opportunistically by Elites. From Wordnik.com. [Chip Berlet: Roots of Right Wing Populist Rage -- Realignment] Reference
Unfortunately for some, and opportunistically for others, that time is ending. From Wordnik.com. [Musings from GroupM: The Closed Loop of Consumer Intent and Insights - Chris Copeland - MediaBizBloggers] Reference
They figure opportunistically, let it rent for a month or two to a new start-up. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2009] Reference
The punditocracy opportunistically cries anything that will get them ratings and attention. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Ross: Bippity Boppity Barack] Reference
GM will continue to opportunistically access global markets to raise additional liquidity. From Wordnik.com. [GM Statement on Additional Cost Cuts] Reference
And we're going to do it as energetically and as vigorously and as opportunistically as we can. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2001] Reference
"We go to market opportunistically," said Margaret Mellott, a spokeswoman for Ford Motor Credit. From Wordnik.com. [Asset-Backed Issuers Pile Into Corporate Bond Market] Reference
A political hypocrite, Joe Wilson supports U.S. free trade while opportunistically exploiting racist fears. From Wordnik.com. [Nikolas Kozloff: Joe Wilson's Immigration Hypocrisy] Reference
And it's very unfortunate that the chairman continues to pursue this particular effort, so opportunistically. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2002] Reference
Now turncoat Richardson opportunistically jumps on the Thetans spaceship and wooosh ... the snarky gloating begins. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Campaign "In The Red"] Reference
It makes people scared and it causes them to sit on their hands rather than opportunistically try to get in the market. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2007] Reference
So it's a situation where Israelis opportunistically capitalize on this End Time movement, and built this relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Cohen: My Interview with Matt Taibbi on His Book, the Media, the Election and His Spat with Erica Jong] Reference
To Republicans in Congress opportunistically seeking a talking point against the president, this may be called a flip-flop. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Naiman: Is Team Obama Really Rethinking Afghanistan?] Reference
On the contrary, we showed that the dominant reaction was to respond opportunistically by holding down wages of black workers. From Wordnik.com. [African National Congress] Reference
Sadly, opportunistically you eschewed challenging analysis, and offered only snide and trivial, if literate, tabloid reporting. From Wordnik.com. [James S. Gordon: The Wrong Story on Karadzic] Reference
First, like all far right parties it opportunistically seizes upon genuine grievances that mainstream politicians will not address. From Wordnik.com. [Whoops! Someone's goosestep is showing] Reference
The fact is that the BNP and all neo-fascist groups seize opportunistically upon anything in mainstream discourse that suits their ends. From Wordnik.com. [Censorship by intimidation] Reference
It is instructive to note that it is those who opportunistically refused to look at the report who continue to call for its publication. From Wordnik.com. [OPENING ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA IN THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET DEBATE, IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.] Reference
On the contrary, as we shall show later, many businesses appeared content to respond opportunistically by holding down black wage levels. From Wordnik.com. [African National Congress] Reference
This is usually whispered outside formal structures, and bandied about opportunistically in the build-up to the organisation's conferences. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Malay and Adroa's lawyer John Kaggwa insist that UCKG opportunistically took advantage of Adroa's illness to finagle a way into her assets. From Wordnik.com. [Glenna Gordon: Does God Need Your Car?] Reference
Some enterprising Greeks took instantaneously to business, avidly and opportunistically selling government property such as stamps and licences. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
About Pseudomonas aeruginosa The versatile "blue-green pus bacteria" that opportunistically infects people, especially those who are immunocompromised. From Wordnik.com. [New In Vitro Study Data Shows Importance of Dressing Conformability to Action of...] Reference
Toxic waste sites have become the planet's newest infections, resulting in corrosive materials opportunistically oozing and seeping out wherever they can. From Wordnik.com. [Dana Ullman: Our Planet, Our Selves: The Earth's Symptoms and What to Do About Them] Reference
We've detailed how the GOP Noise Machine has feasted, opportunistically, on the chance to foment hate while creating a chaotic atmosphere of supposed instability. From Wordnik.com. [Radical Rush Blames Clinton For OK City Bombing; The Press Yawns] Reference
That is to say, do not give him recruitment opportunities; do not give him propaganda opportunities that he can use opportunistically to bring more people to his cause. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2006] Reference
What's worrisome about "Wild at Heart" -- whether you take it seriously or as a goof -- is the sense that Lynch is opportunistically trafficking in Lynchian grotesqueries. From Wordnik.com. [David Lynch's New Peak] Reference
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