serendipity
/ˌsɛr(ə)nˈdɪpɪti/
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American sound/ˌsɛr(ə)nˈdɪpɪti/
ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪti
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ˌsɛrən - ˈdɪpɪti -> serendipity
Myanmar meaning
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serendipity /serǝn'dÇpǝti/ n [U] (fml )
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- ‘A few weeks ago, in one of those moments of serendipity, I came across a book waiting to be placed in our law library's rare book collection.’
- ‘I don't worry about surveillance as much as I worry that chance encounters and serendipity may disappear.’
- ‘Nick is talking about a different sort of thing - a high incidence of serendipity and coincidence in one's life.’
- ‘With yet another stroke of serendipity, they are BOTH newly single!’
- ‘Like most worthwhile adventures, the origins of this particular grand excursion are rooted in pure serendipity.’
- ‘While there is appeal in the spontaneity and serendipity of these events, they do not amount to community.’
- ‘Success often depends on serendipity and clues turned up by other investigations.’
- ‘Evolution seems to proceed not by design but by chance and serendipity.’
- ‘Discovery, for an artist, is rarely the much-advertised miracle of serendipity.’
- ‘There is huge serendipity in life and we cannot plan for it of course.’
- ‘Through standard musical comedy serendipity, George is given an audition opposite Clare!’
- ‘A mixture of serendipity, personal experience and recommendation built the list of artists.’
- ‘It was only through sheer serendipity that he found what he was looking for bobbing about on the Clyde just a few miles from his home in Woodlands.’
- ‘You might say this is serendipity, but you really have to make these things happen.’
- ‘What is lost, some say, is the experience of serendipity and the delight in finding things that you would not naturally seek out.’
- ‘In his own words, he scraped a living in Bangkok but then serendipity came again in the form of a meeting with two influential people in Bangkok.’
- ‘One of the nicest things about traveling is the part that serendipity plays in our adventures.’
- ‘The arts develop because of aptitude, talent, genius, hard work and serendipity.’
- ‘It's only luck or rather serendipity, which makes them successful.’
- ‘Such serendipity is typical of a constantly surprising show whose overlapping paths continually come full circle.’
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