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happenstance

[ US /ˈhæpənˌstæns/ ]
[ UK /hˈæpənstəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental

How To Use happenstance In A Sentence

  • I want her to know the best of our world, not stumble from happenstance to happenstance without guidance and support.
  • He is not short. Can you believe that such perfection is mere happenstance?
  • In the end, I submit that what nonoriginalists really want is not to follow the happenstance of changed meanings but to ignore or deviate from the original meaning because they disagree with it.
  • But they took action to transform happenstance into something larger.
  • Through either grace or happenstance, the architecture of the 140-year-old building embodies the spirit of the contemporary parish.
  • My other Latin American foray—into Cuba—came about by happenstance. Staying Tuned
  • Using government money on a vast scale to keep the financial markets working, then to save the automobile industry from bankruptcy, has edged the Bush administration deep into a kind of happenstance socialism. A Revolutionary President
  • Every life is dictated by happenstance but some are distinctly shaped by a series of chance meetings. Times, Sunday Times
  • The problem is, orchestras and the like are among those organizations for which the reduction of equivocality is almost necessarily happenstance. Archive 2007-02-01
  • He described it as being happenstance of a fortuitous nature.
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