serendipitously
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From serendipitous + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]serendipitously (comparative more serendipitously, superlative most serendipitously)
- By serendipity; by blind luck in combination with wisdom; by fortunate accident.
- 2013 September 20, Holly Baxter, The Guardian[1]:
- And that was a few years before the serendipitously named American politician Anthony Weiner reminded us once again that a high-powered job is no guarantee of knowing what to do with your penis, through his "sexting" use of Twitter (Snapchat hadn't been invented yet.)
- 2019 December 1, Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer, The New York Times[2]:
- And then unexpectedly, and serendipitously, Mr. Trump won the White House. Ending legal abortion appeared within their reach.
Translations
[edit]by serendipity
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