Meaning & use
serendipitously
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In a way that happens by a pleasant or fortunate accident, without being planned.
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The two old friends serendipitously ran into each other at the airport.
She serendipitously discovered the recipe while trying to use up leftover vegetables.
A note on using this word
Comes from 'serendipity,' coined by writer Horace Walpole in 1754; it implies a fortunate discovery made by chance rather than through deliberate searching.
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