happenstance
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- n an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
- But lately, says Chilton, more Christian scholars have scuttled the idea that Jesus' Judaism was mere "ethnic happenstance.
- By happenstance, as the buck was worrying down again, central bankers, finance ministers and some 6,000 other leading moneymen were gathering in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, for the .
- He soon figured out that happenstance played no role; timing was everything.