serendipity
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New ideas spring, as if by serendipity, from individuals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 16, 2025
A few years later, Henson and his wife, Gayle, opened a dude ranch in Santa Barbara County called, in a stroke of eventual marketing serendipity, Hidden Valley Ranch.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025
The couple said that finding the mobile home in 2010 was a stroke of serendipity.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025
"It's pure serendipity that 2024 became the year these films were released, igniting conversations together."
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024
Instead, holding that tiny warm body, she had felt a conscious serendipity, a sense that this may not have been planned but had become, the minute it happened, what was meant to be.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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