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serendipitous

[ser-uhn-dip-i-tuhs]

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adjective

come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.

of, pertaining to, or suggesting serendipity.

good; beneficial; favorable: serendipitous weather for our vacation.

Origin:
1940–45; serendipit(y) + -ous

Related forms

ser·en·dip·i·tous·ly, adverb

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But she still marvels at the serendipitous way she got involved with quilts.

The case for keeping print within reach is more complex than fuzzy rhetoric about the joy of serendipitous browsing.

If you're a rock and pop fan, it gives you a stream of songs that is eclectic, unpredictable and serendipitous.

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But she still marvels at the serendipitous way she got involved with quilts.

The case for keeping print within reach is more complex than fuzzy rhetoric about the joy of serendipitous browsing.

If you're a rock and pop fan, it gives you a stream of songs that is eclectic, unpredictable and serendipitous.

But don't be afraid to handhold at slow shutter speeds-the serendipitous effects can be wonderful.

What followed lunch that day was a serendipitous discovery.

It has the serendipitous charm of a flea market, but the quality of a high-end boutique.

But compiling a crowd this way is tedious, and not conducive to serendipitous discovery.

Actually, the consequences may prove even more serendipitous.

It's a place for solitary reflection as well as serendipitous encounters in the context of intellectual seriousness.

Going even further, select companies build in mechanisms for capturing serendipitous discoveries.

Every page of this quirky compendium catalogs something fascinating, surprising, or serendipitous.

Open standards also foster serendipitous creation: someone may use them in ways no one imagined.

Other data-driven innovations are more serendipitous.

We had our best experiences at serendipitous choices, rather than following recommendations.

Yet the serendipitous approach to discovering great books has some benefits.

Your best bet is to look for tour operators that will maximize and facilitate these serendipitous interactions.

The serendipitous ingredients for scenius are hard to control.

One of the joys of reporting is the serendipitous encounter, the fascinating digression.

Intel's involvement in this research was serendipitous.

The observation of how muscles react during laughter was a serendipitous discovery made in the course of a more serious project.

Such films have generated differing opinions on whether they are serendipitous accidents.

Nearby waits the serendipitous source of their courage:.

Sometimes a successful art career springs from a few serendipitous occurrences.

As a serendipitous consequence of selection for male.

As with the origins of so many great scientific discoveries, this story begins with a serendipitous chain of events.

But he contends that the birth of his challenge was serendipitous.

But so did a lot of people who saw in the reservoir a serendipitous urban oasis and who wanted it to remain mostly undisturbed.

But from that serendipitous meeting sprang a great friendship and one of the significant collaborations in movie history.

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World English Dictionary

serendipity (ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪtɪ)

—n
	the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident

[C18: coined by Horace Walpole, from the Persian fairytale The Three Princes of Serendip, in which the heroes possess this gift]

seren'dipitous

—*adj*

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