happenstance
Example Sentences
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What cemented his place there was half happenstance: his no-nonsense, on-the-scene reportage of the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics, which occurred while he was filling in at “SportsCenter.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
And that’s pretty much how my life has been, all just happenstance.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025
Marles had met Hegseth in August to lobby him on Aukus, but the latter's office issued - and later retracted - a statement saying there were no talks, only "a happenstance encounter".
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025
Other scientists must then replicate those results, proving that the first results weren’t happenstance.
From Slate • Nov. 14, 2024
She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Li'der, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly missing a baseball career in America.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
