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What does happenstance mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) A chance or random event or circumstance.
  2. (uncountable) The chance or random quality of an event or circumstance.
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The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror.
But, nevertheless, the happenstance still makes me feel that fate likes to smile every so often upon the introverted bookworms of the world.
If the key is to not actively search for something, then why don't more common people stumble upon such experiences of happenstance?
I want her to know the best of our world, not stumble from happenstance to happenstance without guidance and support.
Each one, responding to happenstance and circumstance and accident, has assumed a shape not quite like that of any other tree of its kind.
By sheer happenstance, the challenge of skyrocketing butterfat prices coincided with the waning economy.

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