serendipity

Example Sentences

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When you’re just another tourist following a well-trodden itinerary, serendipity is rare, but the Georgian hinterland seems to regularly yield chance happenings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

He added that the whole thing has a "special kind of serendipity" and is "exactly what we wanted to unlock with Welsh National Theatre".

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

A few years later, Henson and his wife, Gayle, opened a dude ranch in Santa Barbara County called, in a stroke of eventual marketing serendipity, Hidden Valley Ranch.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

Livingston had discovered electrical focusing by sheer ingenuity and serendipity; Lawrence recognized the underlying principle, which enabled him to incorporate it into subsequent designs.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik