happy accident
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhappyandaccident
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happy
adjective
uk/ˈhæp.i/us/ˈhæp.i/
feeling, showing, or causing pleasure ...
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accident
noun
uk/ˈæk.sɪ.dənt/us/ˈæk.sə.dənt/
something bad that happens that is not expected or intended and that often damages something or ...
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(Definition ofhappyandaccidentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhappy accident
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Acoustically, it was ahappyaccident.
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This represents the kind ofhappyaccidentthat has become important in the era of turntablism and digital sampling.
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Such elements ofhappyaccidentas attended the evolution of chlorpromazine have by no means always been the case.
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That is not ahappyaccident.
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It was not ahappyaccident.
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The college's failure to complete the landscaping creates thehappyaccidentof juxtaposing new and existing fabric, enriching the viewer's apprehension of the instauration.
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The thing is, those little bits are usually more powerful the third, fourth and fifth time they happen than the first, when it was just ahappyaccident.
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It is byhappyaccidentthat we find ourselves in a position to do so today.
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By ahappyaccidentof history we have two national companies, one competing against the other.
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It is illusory to believe that such growth was just ahappyaccident.
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If not, it may be ahappyaccidentthat it is ready.
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They are, however, often the result ofhappyaccidentrather than design.
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He described this as ahappyaccident.
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Like that mausoleum was ahappyaccident.
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Again, proposals for zoning cannot cater for the unexpected, for thehappyaccident, which so often happens.
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In the first place, the existing system does not get us, except byhappyaccident, good lawyers.
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The earliest integrated circuits were ahappyaccident.
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The proper use of the public purse, the efficient use of scarce resources and the better care of patients are not ahappyaccident.
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That was nohappyaccident; we happened to have the right industrial and economic climate, which attracted thousands of companies from all over the world.
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It is a matter to which we dare never refer as something which was ahappyaccidentof the past and an unhappy concomitant of the present.
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Thishappyaccidentof location and history has resulted in the top of the building being listed for preservation, no matter what happens to the lower parts.
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It is, perhaps, ahappyaccidentfor the good government of this country that the warning which was given in 1955 so very clearly covered this case.
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I trust, therefore, that thishappyaccidentmay render this debate perhaps less lurid than the subject might have led us to expect it to be.
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The fire destroyed the buildings they had been trying to retain and may have been viewed as ahappyaccident.
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