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Definition of happenstance in English: happenstancenoun ˈhap(ə)nˌstansˈhæpənˌstæns mass nounNorth American Coincidence. 〈主北美〉巧合，偶然事件 it was just happenstance that I happened to be there 我出现在那里只是巧合。 count noun an untoward happenstance for Trudy 对特鲁迪不利的偶发事件。 Example sentencesExamples - None of this occurred suddenly or by happenstance.
- Each one, responding to happenstance and circumstance and accident, has assumed a shape not quite like that of any other tree of its kind.
- The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror.
- The question of whether you are true artists or the fortunate benefactors of happenstance cannot be answered until you make a second film.
- That this action mimics the US Republicans' 1995 shutdown of Congress is no happenstance.
- But they took action to transform happenstance into something larger.
- Some events do occur by chance or happenstance, but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental.
- I want her to know the best of our world, not stumble from happenstance to happenstance without guidance and support.
- If the key is to not actively search for something, then why don't more common people stumble upon such experiences of happenstance?
- By sheer happenstance, the challenge of skyrocketing butterfat prices coincided with the waning economy.
- There is a large degree of economic happenstance governing the trend, observers like Palmer say.
- It may be that just by accident or happenstance this has come to be.
- It really makes you think about crimes vs. accidents and intentions vs. happenstance.
- In them, he records the poetic ways happenstance and necessity converge in daily life.
- It cannot of course be held against Irving that on occasion by happenstance he has found himself at the same meeting, or even on the same platform, as some acknowledged extremist.
- Complexity is a consequence of chance and happenstance, not design.
- What world does the CBC inhabit where happenstance or tragic accident are always already made sense of through the lens of political calculation?
- Most top athletes despise the notion of luck, with its amateurish connotations of fluke and happenstance.
- There were too many coincidences to take everything in stride as pure happenstance.
- He described it as being happenstance of a fortuitous nature.
Synonyms accident, chance, serendipity, fate, a twist of fate, destiny, fortuity, fortune, providence, freak, hazard
OriginLate 19th century: blend of happen and circumstance. Definition of happenstance in US English: happenstancenounˈhæpənˌstænsˈhapənˌstans North American Coincidence. 〈主北美〉巧合，偶然事件 it was just happenstance that I happened to be there 我出现在那里只是巧合。 an untoward happenstance for Trudy 对特鲁迪不利的偶发事件。 Example sentencesExamples - There were too many coincidences to take everything in stride as pure happenstance.
- If the key is to not actively search for something, then why don't more common people stumble upon such experiences of happenstance?
- None of this occurred suddenly or by happenstance.
- The question of whether you are true artists or the fortunate benefactors of happenstance cannot be answered until you make a second film.
- Some events do occur by chance or happenstance, but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental.
- It really makes you think about crimes vs. accidents and intentions vs. happenstance.
- He described it as being happenstance of a fortuitous nature.
- It cannot of course be held against Irving that on occasion by happenstance he has found himself at the same meeting, or even on the same platform, as some acknowledged extremist.
- Most top athletes despise the notion of luck, with its amateurish connotations of fluke and happenstance.
- By sheer happenstance, the challenge of skyrocketing butterfat prices coincided with the waning economy.
- There is a large degree of economic happenstance governing the trend, observers like Palmer say.
- I want her to know the best of our world, not stumble from happenstance to happenstance without guidance and support.
- In them, he records the poetic ways happenstance and necessity converge in daily life.
- The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror.
- It may be that just by accident or happenstance this has come to be.
- But they took action to transform happenstance into something larger.
- That this action mimics the US Republicans' 1995 shutdown of Congress is no happenstance.
- What world does the CBC inhabit where happenstance or tragic accident are always already made sense of through the lens of political calculation?
- Each one, responding to happenstance and circumstance and accident, has assumed a shape not quite like that of any other tree of its kind.
- Complexity is a consequence of chance and happenstance, not design.
Synonyms accident, chance, serendipity, fate, a twist of fate, destiny, fortuity, fortune, providence, freak, hazard
OriginLate 19th century: blend of happen and circumstance. |