serendipity
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Schiller’s reporting methods rely, to some extent, on serendipity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Yes, that’s why I like the word serendipity.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026
New ideas spring, as if by serendipity, from individuals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
Then in the 1940s, "serendipity" catapulted it into the big time, says Prof Silhavy.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
It was serendipity that called her in the countdown to John Glenn’s flight.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
When she first came to New York, she was often hungry, surviving on nothing more than pizza slices and Orange Julius, but her life was full of serendipities.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
It felt, especially to the grandiose kid that was me at the time, like one of those sublime serendipities in which big cities, with all their complexity and potential, specialize.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
The goal is to create strategic conversations, connecting people and creating serendipities.
From Forbes ● Dec. 5, 2014
"What a long strange trip it's been," from the 1970 Grateful Dead hit "Truckin'," has become a widely used description of life's serendipities.
From Reuters ● Sep. 16, 2013
And each of them is subject to the vagaries and serendipities of life.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2012
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