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Example sentences for: serendipity
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Such serendipity sends one on a voyage of discovery, to see what meanings can be aptly found in other Chinese transliterated names.
The selection of his major discipline, which would eventually be called visual neuroscience, may have been serendipity or choice.
A well known literatonym is serendipity, often used imprecisely to mean anything found by good luck, but precisely meaning something good that is unexpectedly found while looking for something else.
He laid down a few ground rules: The material had to have been recorded commercially, "between 1927, when electronic recording made possible accurate music reproduction, and 1932 when the Depression halted folk music sales"; otherwise, he was guided only by serendipity and his own ears.
Serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole from the fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip (the ancient name for Ceylon), who often set sail for one destination and found something even better, by fortunate accident.
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