serendipity
Example Sentences
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Yes, that’s why I like the word serendipity.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026
When you’re just another tourist following a well-trodden itinerary, serendipity is rare, but the Georgian hinterland seems to regularly yield chance happenings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025
Then in the 1940s, "serendipity" catapulted it into the big time, says Prof Silhavy.
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
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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