serendipitously

English

Etymology

serendipitous +‎ -ly

Adverb

serendipitously (comparative more serendipitously, superlative most serendipitously)

  1. By serendipity; by blind luck in combination with wisdom; by fortunate accident.
    • 2013 September 20, Holly Baxter, The Guardian‎:
      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:
      And then unexpectedly, and serendipitously, Mr. Trump won the White House. Ending legal abortion appeared within their reach.

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