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
Only humans can weave meaning, create serendipity, and grow wiser through story.
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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
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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
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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
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With luck, Typhoon Halong won’t become the star of the Baycurrent.—
Jenny Catlin,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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