as in luck
literary
the unexpected occurrence of or faculty for finding valuable or agreeable things that are not sought
They found each other by pure serendipity.
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Recent Examples of serendipity
But visitors are encouraged to walk the garden’s lovely, winding paths, leaving it up to serendipity to stumble across something musically beautiful.
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
The story of how that came about is rich with humor and serendipity.
—Robert Leonard, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
Then came a stroke of serendipity from Hofstra University on Long Island, an easy ride by commuter rail from the couple’s on-again, off-again home base of Brooklyn.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
And then, by complete serendipity at this Melanoma Research Alliance meeting, the CEO of the alliance introduced me to Heman.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
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Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2024
The story of how that came about is rich with humor and serendipity.
—Robert Leonard, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
Then came a stroke of serendipity from Hofstra University on Long Island, an easy ride by commuter rail from the couple’s on-again, off-again home base of Brooklyn.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
And then, by complete serendipity at this Melanoma Research Alliance meeting, the CEO of the alliance introduced me to Heman.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 15 Aug. 2024
See all Example Sentences for serendipity
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“Serendipity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serendipity. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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