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happenstance
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hap·pen·stance  (hpn-stns)
n.
A chance circumstance: "Marriage loomed only as an outgrowth of happenstance; you met a person" (Bruce Weber).


happenstance [ˈhæpənˌstæns]
n
1. chance
2. a chance occurrence
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.happenstance - an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
chance event, fortuity, accident, stroke - anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"
Translations
happenstance [ˈhæpənstæns] N (US) → casualidad f
by happenstancepor casualidad
happenstance
n (inf)Zufall m; by happenstancedurch Zufall, zufällig
happenstance [ˈhæpnˌstæns] n (Am) (fam) → combinazione f
happenstance [ˈhæpnˌstæns] n (Am) (fam) → combinazione f


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To be invited to Brussels for one's first solo exhibition when one was born and bred in Tennessee and lives hi New York is one of the odd happenstances that always seem to befall Josh Smith, a young painter who for several years now has mostly painted a single subject: his name.
A string of such happenstances might explain how the United States came to have 12 separate broods of 17-year cicadas.
``It grew up at a particular part in history by a set of circumstances and happenstances.
 
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