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happenstance
[
hap
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uh
n-stans
]
Example Sentences
hap·pen·stance
/
ˈhæp
ənˌstæns
/
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[
hap
-
uh
n-stans
]
Show IPA
noun
a chance
happening
or event.
Origin:
1895–1900;
happen
+
(circum)stance
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
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Happenstance
is always a great word to know.
So is
zedonk
. Does it mean:
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doohickey
. Does it mean:
So is
bezoar
. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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Happenstance
also caused that train to collide with actual news events.
The pressure of the elections and
happenstance
have brought it to fruition.
Any gap in this lucky chain of
happenstance
means a dry hole today.
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Happenstance
also caused that train to collide with actual news events.
The pressure of the elections and
happenstance
have brought it to fruition.
Any gap in this lucky chain of
happenstance
means a dry hole today.
Much more believable than a
happenstance
meteor strike that picked out which species to eliminate and which to keep.
Success depends as much on luck, timing and
happenstance
as on clever calculation.
But put all of those coincidences together and something stronger than
happenstance
emerges.
They succeeded, partly by design and partly by
happenstance
.
It clung to the false memory, preferring it to more literal
happenstance
.
What is wrong is the idea that his discoveries were simply
happenstance
.
Miscalculations and
happenstance
were responsible for this.
God is a
happenstance
muddle of other evolved mental parts.
It was a potentially important discovery, but in part a result of
happenstance
.
Holcman came by this opportunity through
happenstance
.
Perhaps this is
happenstance
that reflects only a random array of differing judicial philosophies.
These are people who owe their lives and futures as much to random
happenstance
as to an actual plan.
Happenstance
brought him to this broiling desert for his victory lap.
Happenstance
tends to play an enormous role in landing this kind of work.
Part of the storyteller's art has always been to conceal potent meanings and implications behind the artifice of
happenstance
.
These
happenstance
meetings are the interpersonal equivalents of meteor showers.
But he conceded that the suggestiveness was the product of
happenstance
and not official conduct.
Simmons's trip was by
happenstance
unfortunately close to the film's release.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
happenstance
(ˈhæpənˌstæns)
—
n
1.
chance
2.
a chance occurrence
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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