happenstance
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The whale attack is a tragedy of happenstance and filmed as chaotically as if it were happening to the camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Canada, by the happenstance of being neighbours with the world's largest economy, is hugely reliant on US trade.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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 isn’t happenstance: The 66-year-old is playing a game with analysts, according to people familiar with the matter, and only a small circle inside Bank of America is in on the joke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Chances were that, fog and all, he’d made his drift dead center by happenstance; he’d had the luck he’d prayed for earlier.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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