An event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental

Usage examples of happenstance.

The fact that he had survived was pure happenstance, a freak chance, a one-in-a-million shot.

By pure happenstance, the great green berserker who had once been Bruce Banner turned, faced a camera, and roared like an extinct monster from prehistory sent forward through time.

And always, in the end, it was outside influences that governed him and he was blown by chance, by pure happenstance, coincidence, one way or the other, without having anything to say about it.

Thinking how now, for a split minute out of the time run, by a happenstance of smartness on their part and dumbness on his, they held it all in their hands.

Scotty, and they demand an interpretation that goes beyond happenstance and blind chance.

Whether this was a meaningful distinction or just happenstance was subject to debate.

The precise causal connection between this tiny biological happenstance, and a few other minor variations that exist in that slice of the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash-such as Tricia McMillan failing to leave with Zaphod Beeblebrox, abnormally low sales of pecan-flavoured ice-cream and the fact that the Earth on which all this occurred did not get demolished by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass-is currently sitting at number 4,763,984,132 on the research project priority list at what was once the History Department of the University of MaxiMegalon, and no one currently at the prayer meeting by the poolside appears to feel any sense of urgency about the problem.

Gregorin also headed north, with a sullen Sunamon trying to pretend he was heading in the same direction by happenstance, and Dalthanes leading lesser Cairhienin behind.

It might yet turn out those glances were happenstance, or imagination.

So far, we have presented Leibniz as opposing the element of brute happenstance in Locke, in the name of a rational quasi-mathematical relation between mind and body.

It is possible to suggest that there is a middle route: one that opposes the happenstance, but does not go so far as a mathematical or rationally transparent relationship.

If Florida citizens have an equal-protection right to have their votes count as much as those of citizens who live in other parts of the state, this is not a right that can be taken away by state law - or the happenstance of one candidate not asking for a recount because he already won the election.

Unskilled, but tutored by a billion years of happenstance, Isola prepared that product for delivery.

Maybe we will have to accept that certain features of the universe are the way they are because of happenstance, accident, or divine choice.

Snarling at the happenstance, Mardasper was thundering down the long, narrow back stair before the intruder could have reached the doorstep.