How to Use kismet in a Sentence
kismet
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The way my schedule opened up and the timing of it all seemed to be pretty kismet.
—Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
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Many of the stories came to Valderrama through a sort of kismet.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2020
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Even more kismet was that the Loewe show was due to come out on March 5th, the same day that Steel’s book was published.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2021
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There’s a comfort in the kismet and the idea of an inevitable connection.
—Caitlin Brody, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2023
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My mom had got me a set of books that was sort of kismet, this really like changed my life.
—Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018
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The last chapter of this season felt oddly like kismet.
—Nick Moyle, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
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Never mind the Faxon-Rash landing, even the Downhill takeoff proved to be kismet.
—Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2020
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Call it magic, kismet, or love at first sight, sometimes two people just click.
—Tamara Abraham, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2019
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The fact that Trysten Hill ended up wearing a No. 9 jersey this season had to be kismet.
—Shannon Green, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Nov. 2017
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In a case of kismet, the 23-year-old is now garnering global attention.
—Sowmya Krishnamurthy, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2018
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In fact, this project had a lot of kismet industry connections.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
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For Morris and his partners, the location seems a little like kismet.
—Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
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Cass Technical High School, the 27-year-old’s starlet status is pure kismet.
—Rivea Ruff, Essence, 16 Mar. 2022
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No player symbolized the kismet of 2017 better than Farmer.
—Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018
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Since Who Decides War has earned its stripes in streetwear, this presentation felt like kismet.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 19 Jan. 2024
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In another bit of kismet, Brosnahan and Isaac’s busy schedules freed up.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 4 June 2023
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There may have been a bit of kismet in the event, as the mutual friend, convinced that the two might make a couple, had earlier that day sent Ms. Schlosstein’s number to Mr. Strumwasser.
—New York Times, 25 June 2017
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With the current political climate in the U.S. and Mexico, the timing felt kismet.
—Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Oct. 2019
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Kurtwood Smith, who played Red, the curmudgeonly patriarch on That ’70s Show, commented on the kismet of their union.
—Vogue, 17 Dec. 2018
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But at this point, kismet may matter as much as Ks for a team that has won six of eight playoff games since facing a 3-1, eighth-inning deficit in the NL knockout match against Milwaukee.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2019
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Replicating the kismet of chance encounters and meaningful glances is tech's next challenge.
—Steven Levy, Wired, 18 June 2020
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Named for their skin colour and shapely bodies, Caramel Curves found being the latest ambassadors for Savage x Fenty a kismet pairing.
—Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com, 20 Aug. 2021
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So everything surrounding this show for me has been really kismet.
—Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2020
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That dovetails with Matthews’s assertion that postpeak struggles don’t come from kismet or one’s endorphins being out of whack, but rather from inside the players’ heads.
—Mark Bechtel, SI.com, 3 Oct. 2017
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Named for their skin color and shapely bodies, Caramel Curves found being the latest ambassadors for Savage x Fenty a kismet pairing.
—Hanna Phifer, refinery29.com, 18 Aug. 2021
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But today, during this coronavirus crisis, that school board hiring decision seems a bit like kismet.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
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What happened was that Desdemona, through some sort of technology-meets-jazz-fusion kismet, hit him with a reasonable facsimile of his own words at just the right moment.
—New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
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The video for Dunne’s single chronicles the kismet-like relationship between her parents, Marcy and Marty Dunne, who were born five days apart, baptized at the same church and on the same day and grew up living blocks apart from one another.
—Lynn Petrak, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2018
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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
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This kismet, along with Hearst’s dedication to promoting environmental responsibility in the fashion industry, put her at the top of the list of contenders.
—Barry Samaha, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2020
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