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serendipity

noun as in accidental discovery

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They're machines for creativity, collaboration, and serendipity.

From Axios

To preserve the serendipity of finding a random booth in the convention hall, exhibitors can announce, using notifications, that they are hanging out live at their virtual booths.

From Digiday

That a Yank would come along decades later to buy the house felt like serendipity to the family.

From Fortune

Studying millions of objects at a time or executing preplanned programs may be efficient, but science also thrives on serendipity, on astronomers stealing a few moments for an oddball observation or a creative idea.

“It’s definitely an interesting story about serendipity,” says Jared Leadbetter, an environmental microbiologist at Caltech.

Then came one of those weird bits of serendipity that make the writing life—and the book tour—worth all the trouble.

I was thinking of new ways to engage with my audience and with a bit of serendipity and inspiration the cake was born.

I often think about the fall lines of life, the invisible tightropes that divide moments of calamity and serendipity.

More often than not, turncoat spies are successfully recruited as one-offs, through serendipity and dumb luck.

It strips music buying of serendipity and context, making Justin Bieber as important as the Beatles.

It was just six o'clock, and the public-house opposite the Serendipity shop was lighting up.

Serendipity, sėr-en-dip′i-ti, n. a love for rare old books and other articles of virtu.

That polite trifler is fond of a word which he coined himself—'Serendipity.'

It is more than this: it is a matter of observation to any one with a moderate degree of "Serendipity."

They think of serendipity as earned, of work as bestowed, of success as deserved and reserved to the deserving.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to serendipity, such as: fluke, happenstance, blessing, break, luck, and dumb luck.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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