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, —  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

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