concatenation of events

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John asks the tough question; “ How  are we to make sense of this bizarre concatenation of events in which the financial system appears to have become an ethics-free zone?”

From Forbes • Jun. 17, 2014

Announced within hours of the divorce suit was Landis' resignation from his White House job�a seeming concatenation of events that presidential press aides said was purely coincidental.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I am right in my supposition, it was a queer concatenation of events that my father not eating cheese half-a-century before in Holland led to my election as a member of the Athenaeum.

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Henchard, like all his kind, was superstitious, and he could not help thinking that the concatenation of events this evening had produced was the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

It was at this time that the fortuitous concatenation of events sent me upon my first adventure on The Road.

From The Road by London, Jack