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By happenstance, as the buck was worrying down again, central bankers, finance ministers and some 6,000 other leading moneymen were gathering in Belgrade,— The Daily Reckoning
This happenstance was all the more reason to [begin early], so they opened the can to commence the celebration.— The View from Taiwan
Corporations are more likely to use it by happenstance, acquiring it through storage systems they buy from major vendors, some of which embed open-source technology into their products.— SearchStorage: News and trends in the storage industry
By virtue of his skillfull manuevering or by virtue of plain old happenstance -- depends on whom you ask -- Mr. Walsh, as one real estate financier who regularly worked with Lehman said, "had extraordinary authority to commit capital as he saw fit."— Home | The New York Observer
This frustrating little happenstance is an artifact of how Gmail stores messages - just think of all of your email as residing in one big container to which Gmail attaches labels telling it that this is an "Inbox" item, a "Things to Do" folder item or, in this case, a

American Heritage Dictionary (1)
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