happenstance
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t Hollywood, exactly, but a recent happenstance just might sustain me for whatever lies ahead.
Rumor has it that soft serve was created in a feat of happenstance — as all the best things are.
From Salon
Whether it is by increased scrutiny, accident or happenstance, it paints the 150th running of the race in a much more favorable light.
From Los Angeles Times
I prefer instead to accumulate the bits and pieces, stitch them up, allow happenstance and discovery to arrange the pieces, determine the binding.
From Los Angeles Times
A happenstance glance at it always made me laugh, and even now, I see the building and smile at its ghost.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
