happenstance
kebetulan
definition
noun
it was just happenstance that I happened to be there
coincidence.
example
That this action mimics the US Republicans' 1995 shutdown of Congress is no 'happenstance' .
What world does the CBC inhabit where 'happenstance' or tragic accident are always already made sense of through the lens of political calculation?
an untoward 'happenstance' for Trudy
By sheer 'happenstance' , the challenge of skyrocketing butterfat prices coincided with the waning economy.
it was just 'happenstance' that I happened to be there
It may be that just by accident or 'happenstance' this has come to be.
The evolutionary process is rife with 'happenstance' , contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror.
Most top athletes despise the notion of luck, with its amateurish connotations of fluke and 'happenstance' .
None of this occurred suddenly or by 'happenstance' .
Each one, responding to 'happenstance' and circumstance and accident, has assumed a shape not quite like that of any other tree of its kind.
The question of whether you are true artists or the fortunate benefactors of 'happenstance' cannot be answered until you make a second film.
But they took action to transform 'happenstance' into something larger.
In them, he records the poetic ways 'happenstance' and necessity converge in daily life.
I want her to know the best of our world, not stumble from happenstance to 'happenstance' without guidance and support.
He described it as being 'happenstance' of a fortuitous nature.
an untoward 'happenstance' for Trudy
There is a large degree of economic 'happenstance' governing the trend, observers like Palmer say.
There were too many coincidences to take everything in stride as pure 'happenstance' .
It really makes you think about crimes vs. accidents and intentions vs. 'happenstance' .
Complexity is a consequence of chance and 'happenstance' , not design.
It cannot of course be held against Irving that on occasion by 'happenstance' he has found himself at the same meeting, or even on the same platform, as some acknowledged extremist.
Some events do occur by chance or 'happenstance' , but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental.
it was just 'happenstance' that I happened to be there
If the key is to not actively search for something, then why don't more common people stumble upon such experiences of 'happenstance' ?
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