How To Use Serendipity In A Sentence
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Life has a strange serendipity.
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Users of this drug fall into a chemically induced serendipity—in love with everyone around them, and clawing at whomever they can reach.
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But a moment of pure serendipity happened.
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The SFO is deliberately against technical virtuosity in favour of serendipity, against phallocentric guitar-heroism in favour of a detached, unphysical approach to playing.
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Secondly, technical innovation may occur directly in the factory or workshop without any prior research expenditure and possibly as pure serendipity.
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What is lost, some say, is the experience of serendipity and the delight in finding things that you would not naturally seek out.
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A mixture of serendipity, personal experience and recommendation built the list of artists.
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I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast.
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There must be something seriously wrong with a nation that chooses serendipity as its favourite word.
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The arts develop because of aptitude, talent, genius, hard work and serendipity.
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I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast.
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As you open your mind, both synchronicity and serendipity (the silly side of coincidence) occur.
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Evolution seems to proceed not by design but by chance and serendipity.
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A painting exhibition titled "Gradation" and the obscurely organized "Points of View" are less inspiring, and the delicate, thoughtful, though somewhat anachronistic works in the Cuban exhibition "Serendipity" was gobbled up by the sensory overload of its neighboring exhibitions, especially the roaring techno music spewing over from next door's addendum to "California Dreamin '," a coma-inducing cavernous video room that could enwrap a viewer for hours.
Marina Cashdan: The Promised Land? Will Portugal Arte 10 Become a Fixture on the Art World Calendar?
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Sometimes we stay in luxurious hotels, but often we'll take a chance on serendipity and go somewhere simple.
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It is the serendipity of alphabetical adjacency.
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If this argument sounds like Nicholson Baker's argument about card catalogs, well, it is: we're looking at another computer-based substitution of binarism which is at the root of everything computer for serendipity, with all the losses and gains entailed therein.
Technological Reading
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You might say this is serendipity, but you really have to make these things happen.
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Through serendipity and the community coming together, they were able to pull together a team of 14 people to take care of 30 chickens to form Eastside Egg Co-op, along with the help of a Heifer International grant at the nonprofit education-based Zenger Farm.
Rebecca Gerendasy: Community Egg Co-op
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The initial letters of their names happily constituted the word "cabal", which with even greater serendipity had a slightly sinister echo of the word cabbala (a secret mystical tradition of Jewish rabbis uncovering hidden meanings in the Bible.)
The Guardian World News
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It's only luck or rather serendipity, which makes them successful.
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With yet another stroke of serendipity, they are BOTH newly single!
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My books are shelved according to where I expect them to be, and by serendipity.
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On January 28, 1754, Horace Walpole coined the term serendipity, which means finding something you're not looking for but which you nonetheless need.
Fleshbot
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Discovery, for an artist, is rarely the much-advertised miracle of serendipity.
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As serendipity would have it, scientists at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization discovered 10 years ago that a natural animal protein, called epidermal growth factor (EGF), makes fleece fall off sheep like butter off a hot knife.
Sit Still, Lambie, This Won't Hurt
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There is a magical serendipity in bookselling.
Globe and Mail
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In his own words, he scraped a living in Bangkok but then serendipity came again in the form of a meeting with two influential people in Bangkok.
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Through standard musical comedy serendipity, George is given an audition opposite Clare!
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I don't worry about surveillance as much as I worry that chance encounters and serendipity may disappear.
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Jeunet made the capricious Amélie with her in 2001, and ‘capricious’ is the only word for a movie that itself strained to wed the serendipity of surrealism to the earthliness of affinity.
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There will always be a special joy for me in finding a new second-hand shop, with the prospect of discovering something special by sheer serendipity.
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There is a little serendipity.
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This sort of serendipity goes way back, of course — think of Clément Janequin's "Les cris de Paris," a quodlibet of 16th-century vendors 'cries; In the 19th century, there was a bit of a vogue for the combination of worldly concerns and overheard church music, Schumann's song "Sonntags am Rhine" being a gorgeous example.
The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song
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What may be most disturbing, however, is the role that serendipity could play when young kids search for items on search engines, and mistakenly misspell words that may lead to hate sites.
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The word "serendipity" comes from the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip," whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.
Kari Stoever: 720 Saturdays and a Silver Dollar
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Success often depends on serendipity and clues turned up by other investigations.
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One of the nicest things about traveling is the part that serendipity plays in our adventures.
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Nick is talking about a different sort of thing - a high incidence of serendipity and coincidence in one's life.
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Cooperation with other more northerly atmospheric weather patterns or oscillations and a little serendipity is needed to get an exceptionally snowy winter.
Why was last year so snowy? Part I
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I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast.
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The idea is to be open to serendipity: every scientist makes mistakes, but only in a culture that encourages the exploration of the unknown do you get Teflon (when a Du Pont scientist working on Freon accidentally polymerized several gases into a white powder).
The Houses Of Invention
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There is huge serendipity in life and we cannot plan for it of course.
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Like most worthwhile adventures, the origins of this particular grand excursion are rooted in pure serendipity.
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My daughter, praise the serendipity of genetics, is at ease in a troop.
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Perhaps more damaging, mechanizing the drug discovery process may not have left enough room for hunches and serendipity.
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A mixture of serendipity, personal experience and recommendation built the list of artists.
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In the strange world of synchronicity and serendipity that we inhabit, these two facts are not unrelated.
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While there is appeal in the spontaneity and serendipity of these events, they do not amount to community.
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Career advancement comes down to serendipity.
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Some of the best effects in my garden have been the result of serendipity.
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Circumstance, I said, is a factor which some might call chance, fate, luck, serendipity, or karma.
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It requires teamwork; it cannot be left to serendipity.
A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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Black spelled correctly "serendipity" and "gerenuk" - a long-necked species of antelope native to East Africa - to earn all six points possible in rounds two and three.
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I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast.
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It was only through sheer serendipity that he found what he was looking for bobbing about on the Clyde just a few miles from his home in Woodlands.
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From here the route becomes a bit of a blur as a section of flat crawling and squeezy bits were negotiated, until we eventually arrived at the head of the Serendipity Pitches.
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With so few politicians having worked in research, few of them instinctively grasp the intricacies of the system 's reliance on this sort of serendipity.
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Well this is probably serendipity, so I attach a description of a new approach to thermionics.
ZPEnergy.com
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The accidental discovery of a new idea is called serendipity.
Diffusion of Innovations
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A few weeks ago, in one of those moments of serendipity, I came across a book waiting to be placed in our law library's rare book collection.
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Theatre Serendipity's first show of their cross-Canada Fringe-circuit tour didn't exactly go off without a hitch.
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Online sellers may have snaffled a large part of the market, but there is still the joy of serendipity; I bought seven books, two of which were old friends that I'd I had lost, three just looked interesting, and two I had never heard of.
Simon Hoggart's week: No country for ordinary folk
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Not to actually equate Alberta's avarice in serendipity with slavery, of course.
I'm just saying
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What we know also indicates that life is particulate, not ghost-like, but that all information and complexity in the universe is entangled in the sub-microscopic, and that there may well be a servo-mechanism process in the universe which we see as serendipity … factors other than chance appearing and operating in our lives … as the result of the electomagnetic “collective consciousness” of all informational complexity.
Incompatible Arrows, IV: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Thanks to fountains of chai, insomnia, neurosis, random bursts of manic energy, well wishes from the well wishers, angels of serendipity, and surreal twist of fortuity, "The Domestic Crusaders" was born and finished as a present to myself on my 23rd birthday.
Wajahat Ali: 'The Domestic Crusaders': Making History With Muslim American Theater
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It was also serendipity that led to the making of the film.
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I can understand why audiences may balk at the symmetry of the plot and the serendipity of the cast.
Times, Sunday Times
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The arts develop because of aptitude, talent, genius, hard work and serendipity.
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But reality is that no soft shell as comfortable as the Serendipity will keep you dry in a torrential rain or hours of wet sleet.
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It turns out what jazzes us the most is serendipity. posted by Matthew @ 11: 15 AM
Archive 2007-06-01
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The word serendipity comes from the Persian fairy tale
Kari Stoever: 720 Saturdays and a Silver Dollar
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Career advancement comes down to serendipity.
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Such serendipity is typical of a constantly surprising show whose overlapping paths continually come full circle.
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Put another, metaphorical way, American writers tend toward an expressive register commensurate with the open spaces and endless distances of our continent; Perec's magnitude is no less great, but his vastness is essentially urban, highly structured, and by necessity constrained, entailing complex negotiations and yielding delight in serendipity, surprise, and incongruity.
Art and Culture
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There's a strange serendipity to the garden.
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He explains this well and suggests that serendipity is one tool by which people might transcend these effects "Homophily, serendipity, xenophilia" .
July 2008
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And while she knows a lot of big words like erinaceous, she's also very good at simplifying them: "Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
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