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   Ser·en·dip·i·ty

   /ˌserənˈdipədē/

   

   noun

   • 1. the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: "a fortunate stroke of serendipity"

   Word Origin 1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’.

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