happy chance
Example Sentences
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Other days, prompts to check out a business are more subtle, a stroke of happy chance.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2021
It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2017
It would transpire that, by happy chance, the virus was maximally infective only when patients were at their most unwell and usually already in hospital.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2013
Or not so happy chance, as the case may be.
From Time • Sep. 6, 2012
Lablache was originally a double-bass player, and his first appearance in opera as a singer came about through a happy chance.
From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling