Definition of happenstance
:a circumstance especially that is due to chance
- They came together by mere happenstance.
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Examples of happenstance in a Sentence
Our meeting was pure happenstance.
We met each other by happenstance.
It was an agreeable happenstance that we met.
Recent Examples of happenstance from the Web
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Five seasoned criminals meet in a police lineup — seemingly by happenstance — and decide to pull a job together.
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Car rentals are a great source of happenstance music.
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For the Nationals to have Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg as first picks was happenstance and was very lucky.
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The designer who starts from the problem of knowledge will only ever find essence by happenstance.
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By happenstance or not, in the days and weeks after the meeting with the Russian lawyer, emails purloined from Democratic computers were made public, which investigators tied to Russian hacking.
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By happenstance or not, in the days and weeks after the meeting with the Russian lawyer, emails purloined from Democratic computers were made public, which investigators tied to Russian hacking.
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By happenstance or not, in the days and weeks that followed the meeting with the Russian lawyer, emails purloined from Democratic computers were made public, which investigators tied to Russian hacking.
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The 26-page report from District Attorney Hillar C. Moore III provided a detailed account of how Long ambushed the three law enforcement officers by happenstance outside a convenience store.
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