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Dec. 10, 2014
Word of the Day

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\HAP-uhn-stans\
noun
1. a chance happening or event.
Quotes
“Do you really believe we are just the products of circumstance and happenstance?” “Yes, I think so…"
-- Robert Henry Wright Jr., Papelón: A Novel of Argentina, 2007
Origin
Happenstance came to English in the late 1800s and is a portmanteau of happen and circumstance.
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