coincidence

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Good luck and bad luck
align
bad/hard/tough luck!idiom
be bad luck on someoneidiom
be down on your luckidiom
be in/out of luckidiom
blessing
fortune cookie
fortune smiles on someoneidiom
get the short end of the stickidiom
godsend
grace
mercifully
mercy
miracle
misadventure
mischance
streak
voodoo
with any luckidiom
your luck's in!idiom

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Chance and randomness

Examples of happenstance

happenstance
The more recent realities in my own career, however, were begun either by chance remark or unforeseen happenstance.
Neither of these explanations is an economic one; rather, they invoke the vagaries of mind and emotion as well as happenstance.
There appears to have been a glitch in plans, however, due perhaps to politics or happenstance.
The question is whether it is happenstance of the right kind.
Happenstance allowed some control over the biological environment as well.
Transableism is a term which refers to moving between states of being able and disabled by choice rather than by happenstance.
No doubt happenstance bears much responsibility for the direction taken by an academic career, but there was another influence at work on our pioneers.
This gap is not the result of happenstance.
So, by happenstance, these three languages share the property of having the subject come first in the canonical clause.
This happenstance presented a third advantage, a window onto the impact of biological risks.
Whether this trade-off has evolved or is simply happenstance is a matter requiring study.
We might observe similar trajectories of mere happenstance changing the course of events in politics.
Species were now defined not as static entities, but as subject to change dependent on the vicissitudes of time and happenstance.
It seems no happenstance that this movement is upward.
That is, if, for example, a prospective parent selects a boy, this action does not by any means eradicate the element of reproductive happenstance.
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