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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
- The happenstance of the love for the tree house, ostensibly built for the children, might well have been your undoing.
- When reached for comment, Adam L a/k/a clammyc noted that the timing of this post was merely "happenstance". by: you @ soon Blue Jersey - Front Page
- Some phenomena will be periodic, some episodic/sporadic, and some may be solitonic one-time-happenstance. Underground Problems with Mann-Holes « Climate Audit
- But, nevertheless, the happenstance still makes me feel that fate likes to smile every so often upon the introverted bookworms of the world.
- While I liked both Gwen and Harry, their relationship - with a 20-year age gap and a failed marriage each - did seem "happenstance," almost as though they ended up together because they were the only two left to get out of Yellowknife relatively unscathed. Archive 2008-04-01
- The collocation of the JSRC in the CAOC did not occur by happenstance.
- In them, he records the poetic ways happenstance and necessity converge in daily life.
- There is a large degree of economic happenstance governing the trend, observers like Palmer say.
- Each one, responding to happenstance and circumstance and accident, has assumed a shape not quite like that of any other tree of its kind.
- Ms. Jarrett told the crowd that this economic crisis did not occur by "happenstance" but is the result of our "profound irresponsibility. Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet