[
US
/ˈhæpənˌstæns/
]
[ UK /hˈæpənstəns/ ]
[ UK /hˈæpənstəns/ ]
NOUN
- 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.