happen along

idiom

variants or happen by

US, literary + old-fashioned

: to come to or by a place by chance

He was about to leave when his old girlfriend happened by.

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Those don’t come from a company or its operations, but happen along its supply chain — for example, in the production of the fabrics that make a retailer’s clothing — or that result when a consumer uses a product, such as gasoline. —Suman Naishadham, Quartz, 6 Mar. 2024

With cancer or any other severe illness, the drugs a person’s been prescribed are working overtime to ultimately help them—despite the frustrating and painful side effects that can happen along the way. —Julia Sullivan, SELF, 25 Mar. 2024

Some 900,000 earthquakes happen worldwide every year, but the majority happen along plate boundaries, not in the eastern and midwestern U.S., according to Michigan Technological University's Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences. —Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024

What will happen along the interstates leading to the bridge? —The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2023