serendipitous

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Wagner's discovery seemed almost serendipitous, according to Hot House president Steven Scarborough.

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  • You push buttons and things fall out, but it's not that same kind of serendipitous experience. —  John Markoff on newspapers
  • Some of the these are happily serendipitous, others potentially disastrous, and some yield connections that would probably never otherwise be made.
  • Bookride: Only a bookshop but one more is gone… Higgledy-piggledy, serendipitous, bargain-bountiful… oh second-hand bookshops.
  • One of her discoveries was serendipitous: a small red fruit growing plentifully on one of the garden trees. —  A Spell for Chameleon
  • “My choice of path appears to have been serendipitous,” he said, turning slightly away from her. —  SlightlyDangerous
 

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