Saturday, November 14, 2026
serendipity
sair-uhn-DIP-ih-tee, noun
The occurrence of happy or beneficial events by chance.
“It was pure serendipity that the two founders shared a delayed flight.”
Where serendipity comes from
Horace Walpole coined it in 1754, after a fairy tale set in old Sri Lanka.
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