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
He noticed this singular coincidence, as if in mournful presentiment of his own early decease, as a singular concatenation of events by the hand of Destiny.
From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas
By fate in a story we do not mean, of course, the mere causal concatenation of events, for some relation to a purposeful life is always implied.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
