happenstance
Example Sentences
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Much of the treatment that helped her, she found by happenstance.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
George Weiner, a nonprofits expert who runs the marketing consultancy Whole Whale, was made aware of Microsoft’s grant retractions from the very beginning, only by happenstance.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
It’s no happenstance that Moynihan regularly jams words such as “gainsay,” “concomitant” and “fantods” into otherwise ordinary sentences when he addresses the street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"USCIS's hold on adjudications cannot be attributed to anything that these individuals did wrong; rather, it arises solely by the happenstance of their birth," the judge said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Li'der, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly missing a baseball career in America.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Vocabulary lists containing happenstance
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