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US
/ˈhæpən/
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[ UK /hˈæpən/ ]
[ UK /hˈæpən/ ]
VERB
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chance to be or do something, without intention or causation
I happen to have just what you need! -
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
We find this idea in Plato
She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day -
come to pass
Nothing occurred that seemed important
What is happening?
The meeting took place off without an incidence -
happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
It happens that today is my birthday
These things befell -
come into being; become reality
Her dream really materialized
How To Use happen In A Sentence
- Only a few people close to me have had anything happen. Everyday Violence
- A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
- Mr Boardman said: ‘I was out walking with my wife and dog when we happened across a little cove and we found the creature in the flotsam that had been washed up.’
- Neo-Liberal leadership is a lot like the mob: "Yooz can take de money or yooz can have terrible tings happen to ya."
- One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
- The game's protagonist, Laharl, a self-absorbed demon who also happens to be prince to the throne of the netherworld, is as unlikely a ‘hero’ as one could expect.
- Nothing much happened except that I discovered the automatic paper towel dispenser and proceeded to contort my body into various positions to get the thing to work.
- Trying to link things cross-departmentally is something that in my experience gets talked about a lot, but in reality rarely happens. The Audacity of Growth at Helpful Technology
- One of a phases is a brand new SSC, though there is a lot happening behind a scenes. Student development student staff meeting june 23rd 2009
- His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno. Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Help!