happenstance

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Recent Examples of happenstance In that sense, the achievement of AGI or ASI is merely a happenstance along the way. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 The timing of the expulsions, particularly of the ICRC, is not happenstance. Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 But, honestly, nothing about this show has been happenstance. Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025 And one benefit of a plot built on relentlessly surreal happenstance is that eventually every new plot development starts to feel like a twist — because nothing is predetermined, and rationality and rigor have already gone out the window. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for happenstance

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“Happenstance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/happenstance. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.

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