Some proprietors also say the mystery is mere happenstance.

It is mere happenstance that she even met her.

I explained that it was mere happenstance, but from then on he showed me more respect.

Or if their protracted mutual silence was mere happenstance.

Far too many, in my way of thinking, to be where they were by mere happenstance.

The bacterium finds itself inside a human instead of in the soil by mere happenstance.

The way depends too much upon mere happenstance.

Kaisho's scheming or mere happenstance, what did it matter so long as he was here?

Myself, I believe the boy is here through mere happenstance, though an ill one for him.

Was this mere happenstance, they wondered, or were sinister forces at work?