serendipity

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Recent Examples of serendipity Only humans can weave meaning, create serendipity, and grow wiser through story. Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025 Babitz writes this spontaneous baseball outing as a situation beyond serendipity. Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025 At Burning Man, serendipity arrived more dramatically. Lindsay Trout, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2025 There’s discomfort in these engagements, but that’s where serendipity happens. Tim Wragg, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for serendipity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for serendipity
Noun
  • Swift also admitted on a recent SiriusXM Hits 1 interview that her mom, Andrea, thinks (or, honestly, prefers to believe) the song is just about superstitions and making your own luck.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
  • With luck, Typhoon Halong won’t become the star of the Baycurrent.
    Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Looking back, the chain of events — the appendicitis, the podcast connection, the impossible appointment, the miraculous cancellation — feels almost too extraordinary to be a coincidence.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • First, coincidence of interests.
    Omar Al-Ubaydli, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Serendipity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serendipity. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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