serendipity
Serendipitous encounters and experiences have provided me with some good material.
He had always wanted to return home to start a company, and the move proved serendipitous.
About half of all great discoveries are purely serendipitous.

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crapshoot
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fluke
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long shot
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luck into something
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randomly
randomness
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sortition
stumble into something

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Examples of serendipitous

serendipitous
Accordingly, they develop a computational model of irony based on three types of ironic situations, which they call intentional, serendipitous, and competence irony.
The apparent serendipitous isolation of these fragments is difficult to explain.
But curve fitting, intentional or serendipitous, rarely illuminates underlying psychological or neurophysiological processes.
There are one or two famous cases of serendipitous discoveries like penicillin, but generally speaking, science appears and moves by prediction.
Their case also exemplifies migration decision-making as a process that evolves over the lifecourse in response to both predictable and serendipitous events.
For example, the creative process produces at least some unintended, serendipitous results or discoveries.
Much appears, in hindsight, to have been serendipitous.
The current state of knowledge of animal nutrition modelling results mostly from the discernment and unceasing efforts of our predecessors rather than serendipitous discoveries.
Listening later, the distant approach of the van did contribute one of the more evocative sounds of the project, a serendipitous found object.
The collection, in fact, has been revived after a number of serendipitous discoveries, particularly of photographs and drawings in a number of archives.
However, there was one extra, almost imperceptible and certainly serendipitous element that became part of the final recording.
Thus, this first-order method has all sorts of serendipitous properties not shared by general first-order methods.
This is not a serendipitous coincidence.
Such serendipitous discoveries and the new research that they suggest may, in the long run, be one of the greatest benefits one can derive from reading this book.
And until everything is scanned and made available to sufficiently sophisticated search engines, so much research for citations has to be serendipitous, however much one attempts to pretend otherwise.
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