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Today’s word is kismet, spelled k-i-s-m-e-t.

History and Etymology for kismet

Turkish, from Arabic qisma portion, lot

kismet /ˈkɪz.met/ noun [uncountable]

a force that some people think controls what happens in the future, and is outside human control

It must have been kismet. A few months after accepting the commission, she learned she would be having a baby.

He always said that it was kismet that they met at a showing of their favorite movie.

Whatever the reason — luck, randomness, kismet — our region caught a break, however briefly, when the Navy’s Blue Angels descended from thin air in nearly perfect view.

— Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2020

Maybe it was kismet, but they spotted an elderly Iranian man dining with his son and decided to rope them into their kooky divorce plan.

— Americanized, Sara Saedi

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