happenstance
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8.5
- noun
- /ˈhæpənˌstæns/
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casualidad
- It was a complete happenstance that they met at the coffee shop on the same day.
- just happenstance
- mere happenstance
- only by happenstance
I stumbled across this book just by happenstance and it I'm so excited OK.
- I stumbled across this book just by happenstance and it I'm so excited OK.
- It's about the happenstance, serendipity, chance.
- So all right, it was actually in many ways a series of happenstances.
- So how is it possible that you can improve survival so much by this kind of factor of, you know, happenstance of where you are?
- And it was only by happenstance that I came across my buddy of mine brought me to class one day.
- Do you think that the UFO people that the aliens or whoever they are, do you think they choose the people that see them or this is happenstance?
- And yes, there is some happenstance in luck.
- It's it's the craziest happenstance of all time, but that's what it was Cat.
- It's it's the craziest happenstance of one time, but that's what it was Cat.
- Like this is just the most bad luck, pure happenstance shit situation that her boyfriend created.
- He begins in the third day in the middle of this incredible happening happenstance.
- So we don't rub anymore with stuff that helps us deal with uncertainty, unknown and engage with happenstance.
- Totally just happen chance it happenstance that he got kind of thrust into the mainstream talking about this stuff.
- Baked into this is this idea that that, you know, we, we sort of think these things happen by chance, randomly happenstance.
Examples
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He found the old photograph by sheer happenstance while cleaning out the attic.
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We're all born into our childhood homes as if by happenstance, since we don't choose the place of our birth.
Academic text (2010) -
And yes, there is some happenstance in luck.
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No, that was pure happenstance.
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When I first read the UN report, I was struck by a certain pleasant happenstance.
Academic text (2005) -
Some of it's luck, some of it's happenstance, some of it is skill, some of it is inborn talent.
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Creativity and innovation in the arts and in school renewal do not occur by happenstance.
Academic text (2000) -
Nominations were swept into the rule in 1949, but only by happenstance.
Academic text (2004) -
"Surely, that is just a coincidence, nothing more than happenstance," the Abbe said.
Fiction book (1992) -
But by happenstance the late 80s saw a new wrinkle in things, that would serve much the same purpose.
Synonyms
426
3.4
A surprising event that happens at the same time as another by chance
355
1.0
An unexpected event that happens by chance
11
9.9
An event that happens by chance
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3.4
An event that happens by accident and is not planned
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9.1
An unexpected event that happens by chance
Antonyms
How Coincidental
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word happenstance is a mix of happen and circumstance, so you can think of it as a 'circumstance that happens' by chance. That's why it describes an event that occurs accidentally rather than by plan.