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happy accident

collocation in English

meanings of happyand accident


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happy
adjective
uk /ˈhæp.i/ us /ˈhæp.i/
feeling, showing, or causing pleasure ...
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accident
noun
uk /ˈæk.sɪ.dənt/ us /ˈæk.sə.dənt/
something bad that happens that is not expected or intended and that often damages something or ...
See more at accident


Examples of happy accident


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Acoustically, it was a happyaccident.
This represents the kind of happyaccident that has become important in the era of turntablism and digital sampling.
Such elements of happyaccident as attended the evolution of chlorpromazine have by no means always been the case.
That is not a happyaccident.
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It was not a happyaccident.
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The college's failure to complete the landscaping creates the happyaccident of juxtaposing new and existing fabric, enriching the viewer's apprehension of the instauration.
The thing is, those little bits are usually more powerful the third, fourth and fifth time they happen than the first, when it was just a happyaccident.
It is by happyaccident that we find ourselves in a position to do so today.
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By a happyaccident of history we have two national companies, one competing against the other.
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It is illusory to believe that such growth was just a happyaccident.
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If not, it may be a happyaccident that it is ready.
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They are, however, often the result of happyaccident rather than design.
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He described this as a happyaccident.
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Like that mausoleum was a happyaccident.
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Again, proposals for zoning cannot cater for the unexpected, for the happyaccident, which so often happens.
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In the first place, the existing system does not get us, except by happyaccident, good lawyers.
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The earliest integrated circuits were a happyaccident.
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The proper use of the public purse, the efficient use of scarce resources and the better care of patients are not a happyaccident.
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That was no happyaccident; we happened to have the right industrial and economic climate, which attracted thousands of companies from all over the world.
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It is a matter to which we dare never refer as something which was a happyaccident of the past and an unhappy concomitant of the present.
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This happyaccident of location and history has resulted in the top of the building being listed for preservation, no matter what happens to the lower parts.
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It is, perhaps, a happyaccident for the good government of this country that the warning which was given in 1955 so very clearly covered this case.
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I trust, therefore, that this happyaccident may render this debate perhaps less lurid than the subject might have led us to expect it to be.
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The fire destroyed the buildings they had been trying to retain and may have been viewed as a happyaccident.
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