serendipity
Example Sentences
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“People underestimate how improbable the improbable is,” says Christian Busch, a University of Southern California business-school professor and the author of “The Serendipity Mindset.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Serendipity had taken me directly to a Christine Essenberg expert!
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023
Ethel was born in Frogmore Street in 1876, to builder William White and his wife Eliza, in the building which is now the Serendipity hair salon.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2021
"Seinfeld" Seasons 1-9 "Serendipity" "Spy Kids" "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams" "Spy Kids 3: Game Over" "Step Brothers" "The Ugly Truth" "Till Death" "Titanic" "Tommy Boy" "Unthinkable" "Waterworld" "Zodiac"
From Salon • Oct. 2, 2021
Serendipity happens when a well-trained mind looking for one thing encounters something else: the unexpected.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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