In the beginning when we looked at that, it was pure happenstance.

They are those who, perhaps through pure happenstance or a logic known only to themselves, repeatedly attack strangers.

But if Helen were the victim of pure happenstance, what then was one to do?

But the White House said the image was pure happenstance.

Was it possible he might just have ended up out here by pure happenstance?

So if some other poor devil back in 1945 got caught with his long numbers showing, it was obviously pure happenstance.

That the missiles did not devastate civilian neighborhoods, killing hundreds, was pure happenstance.

But neither did it arrive by pure happenstance.

"It was pure happenstance that we took them into custody now," an official said.

Such things, I am certain, do not come about by pure happenstance.