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happenstance

[ hap-uhn-stans ]

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noun

happenstance

/ ˈhæpənˌstæns /

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First recorded in 1895–1900; happen + (circum)stance

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Which is all some strange historical happenstance, considering Bartini was not actually born in Russia.

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It was the kind of happenstance interaction anyone would likely write off as a weird New York City occurrence.

When Dawn Aponte came to the NFL in 1991, it was by “total happenstance,” as she recalls.

He’s shooting the ball and playing with confidence — the rebounding and blocking shots is not by happenstance.

A series of happenstances and a surprising federal law have contributed to the paucity of NFL games played on Friday, for instance.

All of these differences add up to make each planet unique, a product of happenstance and history.

The success that followed 16 years later was a matter of happenstance, not of strategy.

Out of the chaos of happenstance they were finding rules of order, certain formulas of behavior, equations of force.

As for deceased, his ontimely evaporation that a-way is but the frootes of happenstance.

This is contrasted to happenstance decision making based on impulsiveness and wishful thinking.

The German was just a happenstance, a castaway in the war for Arzachel.

But the happenstance habits of nature were steadily being integrated into the control program of man.

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