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happenstance
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural happenstances
plural happenstances
Learner's definition of HAPPENSTANCE
formal + literary
: something that happens by chance偶然情况；巧合
[noncount]
- Our meeting was pure happenstance.我们的相遇纯属偶然。
- We met each other by happenstance.我们相遇是个巧合。
[count]
- It was an agreeable happenstance that we met.我们的相遇是一次令人愉快的巧合。
happenstance
noun
hap·pen·stance ˈha-pən-ˌstan(t)s 
ˈha-pᵊm-
happenstance adjective
Example Sentences
Our meeting was pure happenstance. We met each other by happenstance. It was an agreeable happenstance that we met.
Recent Examples on the Web In the Globe interview, Smith notes that the ubiquity of cellphone cameras is a major difference between King’s beating, which was captured purely by happenstance, and Floyd’s May 25, 2020, murder by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. 
Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022 In a growing population, there’s bound to be some genetic overlap just by happenstance. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022 An influx to New York of foreign talents which had started by happenstance in wartime swelled to an invasion. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 That was the right decision under the circumstances, but each happenstance will vary with the conditions and the individual. John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2022 What may not be so happenstance is that many of the picks Monday should sign for under their slot value. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022 Beyond happenstance or the clubbiness of conservative politics, the key figures, institutions and ideologies of Eastman’s life have converged in the Jan. 6 hearings to a remarkable degree. Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022 Almost all the victims were Black — shoppers, grocery workers and a security guard bound together by little more than tragic happenstance. New York Times, 15 May 2022 The late restaurateur cooked the first batch of Buffalo wings, the most iconic of all barroom bites, by happenstance one winter night in 1964 at Anchor Bar in Buffalo. Fox News, 22 July 2022 See More
Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022 In a growing population, there’s bound to be some genetic overlap just by happenstance. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022 An influx to New York of foreign talents which had started by happenstance in wartime swelled to an invasion. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 That was the right decision under the circumstances, but each happenstance will vary with the conditions and the individual. John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2022 What may not be so happenstance is that many of the picks Monday should sign for under their slot value. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022 Beyond happenstance or the clubbiness of conservative politics, the key figures, institutions and ideologies of Eastman’s life have converged in the Jan. 6 hearings to a remarkable degree. Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022 Almost all the victims were Black — shoppers, grocery workers and a security guard bound together by little more than tragic happenstance. New York Times, 15 May 2022 The late restaurateur cooked the first batch of Buffalo wings, the most iconic of all barroom bites, by happenstance one winter night in 1964 at Anchor Bar in Buffalo. Fox News, 22 July 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
happen + circumstance
First Known Use
1857, in the meaning defined above
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