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单词 happenstance
释义
happenstancehap‧pen‧stance /ˈhæpənstæns/ noun [countable, uncountable] literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhappenstance
Origin:
1800-1900 happen + circumstance
Examples
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  • And they both landed by happenstance rather than design in the Motor City.
  • Dunning and Sasbach, two inconspicuous villages which happenstance has made part of my experience.
  • In deep antiquity, vast, sprawling empires rose and fell, usually the result of happenstance rather than deliberation.
  • In this happenstance, faithful friend Lobo, these white ladies would pay anything for milk.
  • No, happenstance will never make for beauty.
  • They have, through happenstance, and the nature of urban life that crunches lives and experiences together, simply become entangled.
  • Through either grace or happenstance, the architecture of the 140-year-old building embodies the spirit of the contemporary parish.
  • We go to any lengths to avoid such a happenstance in baseball.
chance, or something that happens by chance
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