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Six example sentences with serendipity, each labelled with its topic.
Penicillin owes its existence to serendipity, since a contaminated dish that should have been washed was left on a bench.
Science
Missing the connection turned into serendipity: the delay put us in a mountain town during its one festival of the year.
Travel
The bakery's best loaf came from serendipity, a forgotten bowl of dough that had risen far longer than intended.
Cooking
The company's best product came from serendipity, an internal tool that customers noticed during a demo and asked to buy.
Startups
The best frame of the trip was pure serendipity, a heron landing in the exact second the shutter opened.
Photography
The band's signature sound was serendipity, a broken amplifier that buzzed in a way they decided to keep.
Music
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