Learn English – word for something happening after you wish for it

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For example, saying "I wish I could pet a dog right now", then a person walking their dog comes around to corner.

Is there a word for this outside the realm of faith aside from calling it a wish coming true?

Best Answer

serendipity could work (or serendipitous as a modifier)

It was serendipity that a dog appeared moments after I thought I'd enjoy giving one a good head-scratch.

serendipity from Oxford online dictionaries.

The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

‘a fortunate stroke of serendipity’

Origin 1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’.

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