- align
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be bad luck on someone idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- be in/out of luck idiom
- blessing
- fortune cookie
- fortune smiles on someone idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- godsend
- grace
- merciful
- mercifully
- mercy
- miracle
- misadventure
- streak
- voodoo
- with any luck idiom
- your luck's in! idiom
Meaning of serendipity in English
Examples of serendipity
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There is a real element of serendipity in archaeology.
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Part of this process is serendipity: allowing for chance finds, and accepting that what is found is not necessarily what was being looked for.
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They introduce a logical formalism to describe serendipity, thereby aiming to distinguish serendipity from other manifestations of creativity.
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There is an element of the impromptu about it, even of serendipity.
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They also clearly underline the value of communication and collaboration with your colleagues and of course, the role of serendipity.
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We should not forget, though, that serendipity has yielded some of our most important agents.
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However, as it is now, we often only hear about the implementation or impact of research by serendipity and not by systematic effort (3).
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We would prefer considered (but unconstrained) human intervention, serendipity, and chance to play a larger part.
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This occurs through understanding of the basic mechanisms of drug response, serendipity or systematic genome-wide screening.
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Secondly, words such as ' good luck ' and ' serendipity ' will be far more useful if we avoid extending ' miracle ' to cover their instances and so will the word ' miracle ' itself.
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This paper therefore is a typical piece of archaeological serendipity, and does not result from a research design, or sustained programme of investigation on iron age food consumption.
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Jackson seems to have followed a mixture of the serendipity approach and a search for particularly engaging or remarkable individuals.
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In all of these cases, the potential recipient has a genetic relationship to the donor (in one respect by reproductive biology; in another respect by serendipity).
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One can go round making pleasant discoveries, which is surely the correct description of serendipity.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The proposals also rely on the serendipity of nothing going wrong.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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