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— If something happens by chance, that means it happens even though it was not planned or expected. It is a good thing I saw her by chance, since I needed to tell her something and couldn't call her!

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— adverb (= accidentally) without advance planning they met accidentally — adverb (= haply) by accident betrayed by a word haply overheard — adverb (= perchance) through chance To sleep, perchance to dream..

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accidentally by accident unexpectedly randomly casually at random incidentally fortuitously by luck possibly perchance not on purpose haply circumstantially suddenly quite unexpectedly peradventure maybe inadvertently haphazard fortunately fortuitous coincidentally by coincidence with agility unplanned unfortunately unexpected unexpectantly spontaneously random probably potentially perhaps mishap luckily just right just enough just involuntarily in case if hit-or-miss happen to haphazardly feasibly contrary to expectations conceivably chance to chance

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