Serendipitously

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    By serendipity; by blind luck in combination with wisdom; by fortunate accident.

    "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.)"

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"Explorers looked for shortcuts in space-time to meander serendipitously through the universe."

Etymology

From serendipitous + -ly.

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