serendipity
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America’s system of pharmaceutical regulation treats generic-drug repurposing as serendipity rather than strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Yes, that’s why I like the word serendipity.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026
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
“Robert's sextet is now impossible to buy. You encounter his music only by serendipity in vicarages in July afternoons. This is your one chance in your life. You can work this gramophone?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
When she first came to New York, she was often hungry, surviving on nothing more than pizza slices and Orange Julius, but her life was full of serendipities.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
The dawning of knowledge, the instant of understanding, the way an idea comes together at once as if with the satisfying snap of a seat-belt buckle—such well-prepared serendipities are the mainsprings of “The Martian.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 9, 2015
The goal is to create strategic conversations, connecting people and creating serendipities.
From Forbes ● Dec. 5, 2014
"What a long strange trip it's been," from the 1970 Grateful Dead hit "Truckin'," has become a widely used description of life's serendipities.
From Reuters ● Sep. 16, 2013
And each of them is subject to the vagaries and serendipities of life.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2012
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