serendipity

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Hoiberg built the team that broke the tournament curse with careful planning and some serendipity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

He added that the whole thing has a "special kind of serendipity" and is "exactly what we wanted to unlock with Welsh National Theatre".

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

And they’re the product not of planning, but serendipity, a crucial feature of scientific progress.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

This dish came about more by happenstance than planning, but I’m deeply grateful for that serendipity.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2024

After all, it’s not the outlandishness of its conclusions that makes something a pseudoscience: lucky guesses, serendipity, bizarre hypotheses, and even an initial gullibility all play a role in science as well.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos