Typically, however, authorities stumble across these cases only by happenstance.
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We just got to front of the line by happenstance.
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"You may hear things secondhand or by happenstance," Taylor said.
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By happenstance I've worked for two billionaires in my life.
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Seeking out the material has become, by happenstance, her life's work.
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Garden City assumed its role as horse race headquarters by happenstance.
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The túngara later revived this neglected auditory channel, probably by happenstance.
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For starters, he was thrust into this role largely by happenstance.
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"Don't merely plan to stumble upon things by happenstance," Mr. Gray advised.
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Real estate investor Monick Halm was introduced to the business by happenstance.
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Not having seen the Scorsese picture, he read Belfort's book by happenstance.
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Like Orji's life, none of these circles seem to exist by happenstance, either.
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As a former film student, I didn't fall upon this film by happenstance.
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But, whether by happenstance, choice, or some combination, I am a serial monogamist.
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Then, by happenstance, circumstance, pop culture and my relationships in Hollywood, that changed.
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Moments of harmonic clarity are rare, and they tend to arrive by happenstance.
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We have to remember that getting a raise likely won't happen by happenstance.
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The Nicholson of "Chinatown" emerges here as a movie star only by happenstance.
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O'Brien got back in the moondust game much as he'd entered it—by happenstance.
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By happenstance, Jordan's government resigned on Sunday, part of the normal process after elections.
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In contrast, the path that led Mustafa Nayyem to journalism was marked by happenstance.
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They rarely hit land directly, but that is more by happenstance than by design.
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And, by happenstance, his boss at ABC assigned him to cover faith and religion.
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So I arrived there by happenstance but chose to extend my stay out of curiosity.
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So when she told me, "I know I'm not just here by happenstance," I believed her.
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My father, Nat Kleinfield, was a racing announcer, too, a career that found him by happenstance.
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But by happenstance, it passed in front of three stars within a few weeks this summer.
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Intentionally or by happenstance, Mr. Trump sends signals that are then scrutinized, analyzed and even satirized.
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And sometimes it's just by happenstance whether you're approaching it through the anti-monopoly or utility model.
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By happenstance, I stopped in town just as the 24th Annual Dehcho First Nations Assembly was underway.
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She also gives them by appointment and occasionally by happenstance, if she has the time and inclination.
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Maybe they'll meet a partner by happenstance, or perhaps they'll spend their days content in their own homes.
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In 1994, more or less by happenstance, I ran the 1994 Marine Corps Marathon several yards behind Winfrey.
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Her screams and cries were recorded, by happenstance, on a voice mail message left on a friend's phone.
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The rebound coincided (by happenstance) with a marked firming in U.S. economic data and better-than-feared corporate earnings.
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Binoche and William Shimell play two people who meet by happenstance when she attends a discussion of his book.
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Given how lethal the agent is, Mr. Kaszeta said, it seems probable that the two victims survived by happenstance.
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P.S. Here's a bonus puzzle: purely by happenstance, one entry ended up in a particularly appropriate location — which one?
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The lawyers divided up the region, and Stevenson, more or less by happenstance, was assigned the cases in Alabama.
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And it has an experimental looseness natural to someone who fetched up in the world of fashion almost by happenstance.
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Engrossing, and sometimes enraging, the movie tells of triplets who, after being adopted separately at birth, were reunited by happenstance.
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McKiernan met Carlson, a citizen of the Yurok Tribe, by happenstance, 40 years after Wounded Knee, on a camping trip.
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By happenstance, she ended up with something that resembled dried fruit leather, a blood-red peel with the taste of ketchup.
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By happenstance, they got introduced to an investor, and Stephenson ended up forming Deepgram around the speech recognition technology they'd developed.
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"If you look at how we were able to arrest Zaremski and Rubino, they were both by happenstance," said Mr. Mueller.
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Scenarios flash through my mind in which I — rather than my son — am felled by an error of anticipation, by happenstance.
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And knowing that if you ever have to spend the night in prison by happenstance, they will be your one phone call.
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The five piled into a BMW SUV driven by the mother whom by happenstance was the only one dressed at the time.
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Or maybe you swung by an open house on a lark, and dwelt ever after on the beauty you encountered by happenstance.
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As my colleague Kashmir Hill wondered, what if you're simply caught in the background of a photo by happenstance, would Facebook ID you?
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Since Blane lived just 20 minutes away, Waters decided to do something special for the guy with whom he was matched by happenstance.
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A Seattle native, Chiarelli grew up a Sonics fan — by happenstance, he said, he had worn his Sonics socks to work that day.
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A physician at Boston Children's Hospital noticed the post by happenstance, and within hours, a team of genetics experts and physicians was engaged.
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By many accounts, Woodlawn High School was pretty rough and Hae's ability to flourish within the student body population was not by happenstance.
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Bharara says he created a personal Twitter account by happenstance a few days before he was fired not knowing what was about to happen.
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By happenstance and by his own avowed choice, Mr. Cox's work remained far less mainstream, and far less commercial, than that of many compatriots.
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By happenstance, I landed on the right server with the right group of people, and made friends that helped get me through high school.
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In his lyrics, he often positions himself as an innocent bystander—someone whose path to success was shaped by happenstance rather than by ambition.
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It was not by happenstance that Mr. Biden, with his ties to organized labor, was the only major national Democrat with whom he campaigned.
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He and Trey were able to collaborate on the script so that the characters are not just black people by happenstance, but on purpose.
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It's an inglorious inventory making the work displayed seem like a stock of items discovered by happenstance and then arranged in categories of visual semblance.
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It wasn't, however, until one day by happenstance I downloaded a sermon entitled "You Don't Have To Believe In My Dream" from Bishop T.D. Jakes.
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Williams's ex-wife, Amy Lankford, and her father, Jim Pratte, discovered the fraud by happenstance and reported it to regulators and the insurers for years.
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By happenstance, the same firm was representing private plaintiffs pro bono in the principal lawsuit opposing the citizenship question, in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
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By happenstance, Orgeron's ascendance comes amid an explosion in south Louisiana of French immersion schools, which have popped up like mud chimneys built by crawfish.
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But because Justice White had retired, Judge Gorsuch was also assigned, by happenstance, to Justice Kennedy, the longtime center of power at the Supreme Court.
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We could pretend this placement is meaningless or by happenstance, but nothing about the battle — that's literally for the survival of all mankind — is an accident.
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But everyone has to tread carefully, not least the Democrats, who by happenstance are far more competent and responsible than the president and his ruling party.
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By happenstance, on the very day that the Diamond Princess pulled into Yokohama, Dr. Hadjichristodoulou and a team of European experts released new recommendations for cruise ships.
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The narration in Auster's novels typically dominates every other element in a ferocious and doomed assertion that the world the book describes is not ruled by happenstance.
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"It was just by happenstance and God's grace as I came up to that stoplight that I happened to look over and see the vehicle matching the description."
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Dr. Arne Graff, medical director of the Mayo Clinic's Child and Family Advocacy Center, told Broadly it is not unusual to have child sexual abuse discovered by happenstance.
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Whether it's by happenstance or shared by Coulter, Trump still feels it's okay to share these things from, for better or worse, what he's made into a powerful platform.
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Gustavo Arellano—editor-in-chief of OC Weekly and the food historian author of the taco history book Taco USA—believes that tortillas became convenience foods simply by happenstance.
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The ukulele became a focus by happenstance: When he was 15, his oldest brother, a city bus driver, had found one left on a seat and brought it home.
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Mr. Zuckerberg travels on a chartered private plane and has a small staff at both Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative coordinating his trips, though some occur by happenstance.
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By happenstance, associate road test editor Erick Ayapana had penciled me into a 2.0-liter Alfa Romeo Giulia to get here, and it feels like a wet sponge by comparison.
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By happenstance or not, in the days and weeks after the meeting with the Russian lawyer, emails purloined from Democratic computers were made public, which investigators tied to Russian hacking.
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He'd also been taking apart and rebuilding keyboards and recording his own alien demos since his early teens, and claimed to stumble upon existing dance-music styles only by happenstance.
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If American politics was Broadway, we would call Rinat Akhmetshin a walk-on, delivering a one-time-only-performance more or less by happenstance on the largest stage in the world.
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They fiddle with different grips, test new arm slots and experiment with varying velocities of their pitches, so when a pitcher toes the rubber, he does not do so by happenstance.
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Over time you get over that because it just doesn't happen like that very often, and you realize that it's just two people in the back of the truck by happenstance.
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In general, the series' brisk pacing isn't as well-suited to tackling complex concepts as it is to technical details — which, by happenstance, also demonstrates how form is content in cinema.
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By "happenstance" and the reach of the N.R.A., Mr. Erickson wrote, he had been put in position to "slowly begin cultivating a back-channel to President Putin's Kremlin" in recent years.
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By happenstance two more arrive on Sunday, with "Time After Time" and "Making History" exhibiting mild promise, even if the whole mini-genre already feels as if it's living on borrowed time.
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When I got there, I was really fascinated by Helen's legacy and by happenstance she died the weekend before I got the job, so suddenly the obituary columns were full of her.
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One of the reasons Gerald Ford was able to move on from Watergate with a modicum of success is that by happenstance he'd only been vice president for eight months when Nixon resigned.
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While the documentary is being made, his photographs are discovered almost by happenstance, by a friend with connections to the art world — and Hogancamp finds himself with an exhibition at a gallery in Greenwich Village.
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It was just by happenstance that she discovered the Internet after she left Australia when she was 18, but she had always been interested in film and music as a teenager and it came naturally.
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Filled with their signatures — including green-oak garden buildings, root-houses and obelisks — it also showcased a softer side, with scores of roses and flowering shrubs, all blossoming in wild profusion as if by happenstance.
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By happenstance, on a Harvard Business School trip in 21 while the friends were working in Vietnam, they stumbled upon a street vendor in Ho Chi Minh City selling cards featuring pop-up, 26D designs.
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The store is the brainchild of Vivek Sahni, a seasoned design entrepreneur, and Dave Chang, a partner of Mr. Sahni's in Kama, a wildly successful Ayurvedic treatment line, and it came about almost by happenstance.
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They believe the gun possession conviction seemed at odds with the acquittals, given that those verdicts aligned with the defense contention that Garcia Zarate found the gun by happenstance at the pier where the shooting occurred.
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Hutchins stopped the attack almost by happenstance: He registered as the owner of a website domain name contained in the ransomware's code, which acted as a one-hit KO to a mechanism within its code called EternalBlue.
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I think on some level I've always understood myself to either be genderless or, if forced to align with any one particular gender, a very feminine (by choice, not by happenstance of genetic or the pressures of socializing) man.
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Its fortuitous path of least resistance was essentially ordained by a well-placed atmospheric ridge of high pressure that steered the storm by happenstance through some of the Caribbean's warmest waters as well as an area mostly devoid of wind shear.
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Part of his motivation was musical — he wanted to work with longer, more robust samples — but he also wanted more space to explore the stories of the people he was sampling, these amateurs who were becoming featured guests by happenstance.
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By happenstance, it was the same day that Stephen K. Bannon, the architect of the president's build-the-wall nationalist appeal and enemy of all things Davos, was pushed out of Breitbart News after his critical comments in Mr. Wolff's book.
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This turned out to be appropriate by happenstance, since both Sicily and Bader are renowned for their arresting juxtapositions — Sicily of epochs and cultures, and Bader for his elevation of the profane and ridiculous into the realm of high art.
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As depicted in movies featuring the original cast, it mirrored the conflict between the United States and the U.S.S.R. That the eventual peace of "The Undiscovered Country" (1991) coincided with the aftermath of the Cold War was not by happenstance.
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But whether by design or by happenstance, their policy pause effectively cleans the central bank's slate ahead of what could be a massive overhaul of how they manage the U.S. economy, including what tools it uses and how it communicates to the public.
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The title character (winningly played by Kate Mara) is a restless young woman who enlists as the Iraq war is starting, mostly to escape small-town nowheresville, and then by happenstance finds herself doing kennel-cleaning duty for the bomb-sniffing dogs at Camp Pendleton.
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This would invite the same irksome situation in which a few states' demographic peculiarities govern the destiny of the country, but either of these models would free us from the enforced monolithic importance of Iowa and New Hampshire—two states that ended up being first by happenstance.
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The way he tells it, he found himself in charge of the Kaiser-Francis Oil Company and BOK Financial Corporation mostly by happenstance — lucky to be born into wealth and to have unwittingly joined a bank board at an opportune time — and today, he ranks 61 on the Forbes 400 list.
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Renters While it's common to hear about people who made moving to New York a major life objective, many transplants end up in the city more by happenstance than intention — here thanks to a job, a graduate program or a partner, rather than a burning desire to be a New Yorker.
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Grifters work the gap, and this one keeps getting bigger — because it doesn't exist by happenstance; it's a structural flaw in the free-market economy, a perfectly legal and socially sanctioned dynamic: the tendency for wealth to accrete to those who already have it, who can wield the power to generate more.
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I mean, the Final Girl [the movie trope of the girl who is left standing to face the villain] has really gotten to be quite a tough, strong girl, and not only surviving by happenstance or by a man coming in and aiding her, but really fighting the demons and devils on their own.
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When Hamilton star Mandy Gonzalez sat down with her good friend, actor, writer and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda, to discuss writing a song for her upcoming album, she had an unlikely source of inspiration: #FearlessSquad, the massive, inspirational social media movement that she started "by happenstance" after posting a picture of herself and some of her cast mates.
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By happenstance, the intelligence report on the Democratic National Committee hacking was circulating here the day that Mr. Obama issued a new policy, long in development, to organize the government's response to major cyberattacks and to set up a six-point "grading system" to assess the severity of strikes against American companies, government agencies and organizations.
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Red Sox 238, Yankees 224 As the Yankees began to slowly get their groove back this week, it was easy to forget — in the barrage of home runs, increasingly patient at-bats and encouraging turns by J. A. Happ and Luis Severino — that the Boston Red Sox had not roared to the verge of a franchise record for victories by happenstance.
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By happenstance, just hours before Mr. Trump's conversation with Ms. Tsai, Henry A. Kissinger, the former secretary of state who designed the "One China" policy, was in Beijing meeting with Mr. Xi. It was unclear if Mr. Kissinger, 93, was carrying any message from Mr. Trump, with whom he met again recently in his role as the Republican Party's foreign policy sage.
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